“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.” IfsThinkingWritingBookDifferentWholeAgeWonderCuttingComputerParagraphRevisingDeleting Author:Megan McCafferty
“If you're feeling really sad, there is only one reason: it's because you're deleting all the reasons you could be feeling good. And if you're feeling good, it's because you're deleting all the bad things you could be focusing on.” IfsReasonFeelingsMotivationalFeel GoodBad ThingsReally SadDeleting Author:Tony Robbins
“The Hillary team is driving around in a van. Sometimes people get those gag bumper stickers put on their van. Hillary has one on her van, and it says, 'If this van's rockin', I'm deleting emails.'” PeopleIfsSometimesTeamDrivingEmailVansBumperStickerBumper StickerGagsDeleting Author:David Letterman
“Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.” WritingRealReadingBecomingBurdenLiberationDistractionDragEmailReading And WritingReal WorkSpamDeleting Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.” FirstsIdeasHardFallSupportStruggleEssentialsModelsOrganizationFalling In LovePreservesKneesStatus QuoInclinationJerkBusiness ModelsExpiredDeleting Author:Seth Godin
“Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.” ThinkingSaidTearsPagesCancerCuresInstanceKicksAccurateCriedChuckRadarVandalismDeleting Author:John Green
“Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.” PeopleWorldSocialStuffInterestSimpleStepsGroupsInformationSkillsPicksAspectBoundsScreensCommandOur RelationshipBehaviourStrokesAccustomedConfusingTrashSelectIconsEditsMenusSocial SkillsSocial GroupsDeleting Author:Lynne Truss
“(Talk about Kelly Pickler)"She's like a sister.People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number.” PeopleIfsSaidDoneGuyNumbersOppositesPhonesCellsGood FriendCell PhoneBluntLike A SisterDeleting Author:Taylor Swift
“Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive” HardHelpingRoomsSupportCuttingBalanceBudgetsFilesPbsDeleting Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” WritingArtFeelingsYouthSentencesEndlessHidingSpeculationRevisionOne SentenceCraftinessDeleting Author:Jack Kerouac
“The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.” YearsBookFourBillionsGenomeDeleting Author:Matt Ridley