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Quotes About Notes

Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.
~ Emma Donoghue
He listens well who takes notes.
~ Dante Alighieri
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
~ Aaron Koblin
I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.
~ Bo Sanchez
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
~ Daniel Levitin
I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a beat outline. And then I'll add little notes and dialogue ideas, and I'll just create a 20-page document.
~ Cary Fukunaga
When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.
~ Keir Gilchrist
I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!
~ Jonathan Agnew
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
I take a lot of notes. Maybe it's a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.
~ Amanda Schull
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.
~ Michael Finkel
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
I have this nook at Milk Bar that's my office, and my desk was just full of every box of Kellogg's cereal, and at different times during the day, I would open up a box, eat a bowl of cereal, and I live in a world of Post-it notes, so I would leave tasting notes on all the cereal.
~ Christina Tosi
I keep everything in Notepad: shopping lists, to-do lists, recipe tasting notes, my blog content calendar, recipe inspiration, blog-post drafts.
~ Molly Yeh
Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.
~ Hope Sandoval
La Cave was a great platform for me to learn and be able to listen in on conversations and just get a lot of notes and teachings from those older guys.
~ Savion Glover
making calls, jotting notes as the chatter spilled over the glass walls of the small office tucked in a corner of the newsroom. Experienced
~ Rick Mofina
Sound simple? My best advice is to try it. The way the human brain works, when you write down important points, your mind-body tends to keep that information in a very secure place … and best of all, you won't forget it.
~ Rick Wolff
Eldrith Jhondar, seated at a lapis-inlaid table beneath a hanging on one white-plastered wall, was making careful notes from a tattered manuscript; sometimes she absently cleaned the nib of her pen on the sleeve of her dark wool dress. Marillin
~ Robert Jordan
Henry VII was "full of notes," and with infinite care he initialed each page of the exchequer accounts and amassed a comfortable surplus in the treasury.
~ Lacey Baldwin Smith
Look, I've got to be somewhere ten minutes ago. I'm not about to leave you here with eight thousand dollars' worth of office equipment unless I have some collateral. You want the job or not?" "I want it." "Good. Then you can lend me your car. I'll call you from the road, fill you in on everything else while I drive. Answer the phone and be ready to take notes.
~ Laura Griffin
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.
~ Charles Fort
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
~ C. S. Lewis
God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, Can I be excused the Crucifixion? No!
~ Alan Bennett