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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? Robert Browning

Alone Words Men Strive Fail Succeeds Who Deeds Why

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.' Robert D. Hare

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours. Robert Harris

Day Words Try Too Much Single Too Enough Thousand Thousand Words About Write Hours Five Quite Stop After Much Four Session

By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record. Robert J. Sawyer

Science Words World Three Analog Magazine Record Had Enviable Science Fiction Cover Quite Fiction Stories Novels Two

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words. Robert Pattinson

You People Words Took Responsible Spoke Themselves Then Away Things

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. Robert Rauschenberg

Time Words Virtue Punctuation Correct Corrects Point Never Almost Idea Wrote She Read Up Very Stop Being Screwing Interesting Interesting Idea Momentum Right Things Assistant By The Time

Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day. Robert Silverberg

Work Time Day Words Three First Half Single Lunch Took Back Able About Days Hour Hours Half Hours Wrote Single Day Doing Noon Off Five Short Short Story Story Again Produce Worked Pages Draft Copy

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson

Words Fall Own Mental Feeble Banal Meaning Function Phenomena

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. Robert Smithson

Words Physical Mental Mental Processes Processes Derived Things

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

Words More Condensed Burn Deeper

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. Robert Sternberg

Teacher Good Words Other Way Those Kids Ability One-Way Only Fact Particularly Well Learn Match Conclude May In Fact In Other Words Then Teaches Teaching Who

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. Robert Sternberg

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. Robert Sternberg

Words Better Other Worse Practical Test Tests Did In Other Words

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. Robert Stone

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient. Robert Walpole

Words Dangers Charged Particular Court Affected Nor Account Tranquillity Wanting Which Public View Show Many Whole Each Sufficient

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. Robert Wilson

Me Man Eyes Words Sit Same Thing Illustration Think Says Though Must Visual Would Performance Look Deaf Verbal Repeats Text Same Afterthought Theater Decoration Fascinated Why Compelling Thing

I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements. Robert Wilson

Me Words School Thought Black Signs Met Visual Seemed Never Had He Raymond Terms Period Became Learnt Been Intelligent Child Any Short Movements Short Period After Apparent Who

It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be all the works of Charles Dickens; it could be all of the Internet. They can use grammar and put words together in interesting and convincing ways - and, I think, unexpected and beautiful ways. Robin Sloan

Beautiful You Together Words Internet Big Think Wikipedia Ways Out Charles Charles Dickens Network Neural Could Put Text Dickens Train Unexpected Grammar Interesting Body Convincing Turns Use Works

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on. Robin Sloan

My friends who are not from Sweden tell me that I'm more reserved or maybe more ... I guess the opposite of what a Latin American would be. Maybe because Scandinavians are more careful with their words and I guess it takes a lot to become a friend of a Swede. Robyn

Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry. Rodney Crowell

Work Alone Time Myself Me You Book Writing Words Long Long Time Few Sense Took Seven Giant Trickery Hurry Threaten Songs Songwriting Learn Because How Metaphors Years Off Get Process Realize Page Certainly Standing Standing Alone Challenging

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words. Roger Ailes

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