Journal Quote by Jessamyn West Download Open image “People who keep journals have life twice” — Jessamyn West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Journal Journal writing Keeping a journal Life Motivational People
“At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before life starts… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to… — Brent Runyon Copy Share Image
“A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone. — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure… — Sumner Redstone Copy Share Image
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal. — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image