quotes about Revision
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Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.
-- Ann Druyan -
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
-- Barrett Wendell -
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
-- Bernard MalamudSource : "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
-- Colin Baker -
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
-- Donald Hall -
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I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
-- Ha JinSource : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from May 14, 2012
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Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
-- Ivica Dacic -
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.
-- James Bovard -
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Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.
-- James Randi -
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
-- Katherine Paterson -
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow,
-- Laurence Overmire -
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
-- Laurent Fabius -
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The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.
-- Lester Beall -
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation
-- May Sarton -
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things
-- Rita Dove -
My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.
-- Robin InceSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.
-- Sheila Kaye-SmithSource : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
-- Siri Hustvedt -
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
-- Stanislav Grof -
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
-- Stanislav Grof -
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
-- T. E. Lawrence -
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
-- Tracy KidderSource : Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House
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Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
-- Marvin Bell -
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
-- Michael LongleySource : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
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I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
-- Cate MarvinSource : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
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Revision is a good impulse to have.
-- Rigoberto GonzalezSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.
-- Jesse MichaelsSource : Source: therumpus.net