Top 1200 Writing And Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

I'm always thinking ahead, and I'm always curious about what's happening next. I thrive on that kind of thinking, so I don't burn out.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

When I retweet a troll, I'm not thinking of the troll, I'm thinking of the audience: how can I make them laugh with me, at him?

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

When I was getting ready for a contest I was not thinking size, I was thinking I want to come in shredded, so shredded that people are going to be shocked.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.