Equal Quote by Richard Powers Download Open image “What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.” — Richard Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Equal Mental state Psychology Sentences States
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image