Quotes About Note-taking

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

adquirir el hábito de tomar notas es una capacidad que se complementa de maravilla con el arte de escuchar. ¡Por favor, anote esto para que no se le olvide!

the great de-Kindling, which started when people realized their e-readers were collecting data on their reading habits, like what page they stopped on. Jackie thinks people miss turning real pages. Gruen says it's note taking, marking up the books, that people miss.

Scelse il libro da portarsi, prese il quaderno degli appunti, e via.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find .................for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready, on some future occasion ............................

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

the camera as he talks, looking at notes.

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes. If the mind is occupied with the mechanical process of hearing and putting words on paper at pell-mell speed, I should not think one could pay much attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it is presented.

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.

Can you repeat that pickup line for me?" I heard one of the vamps ask. "I want to write it down. Something about the usual?

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

He went to the board to write lots of Greek symbols and calculus equations. The course had started with cute little things like how people choose between tea and biscuits. It had moved on to scary equations that would dominate exams. The class took mad notes. Kanyashree wrote so hard I could feel the seismic vibrations from her pen's nib.

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.