quotes about Paraphrasing

“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”

“Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.”

“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”

“I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.”

“It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.”

“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”

“We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.”

“When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.”

“The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.”

Source : Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

“I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.”