Sharon Begley Quotes

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

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• The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Style

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Road

• The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Power

• I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Future

• I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

  

  Derek Luke

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Prom

• I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Brain

• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Changes