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“All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.”

Events Notes Various Worthy Admiration Gestures Contemplating Bystanders

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.”

Knows Years Mind May States Events Thousand Ten Notes Strikes State Of Mind Thousand Years

Book:Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)

Source: Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)

“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. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.”

Source: Wild Talents

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.”

Writing Years Five Impossible Events Twenties Notes Five Years Paranoia Twenty Five Assassination Aftermath Kennedy Assassination

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.”

Knows Looks Doe Different War Past Events Conflict Aspect Letters Historical Notes Historian Coming Out Hindsight Impetus Historical Events Great Historical

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.”

Seems Sex Sides Rooms Laughing Wonderful Events Eating Standing Notes Drinking Journalist Marvelous Having Sex

Book:Wallflower at the Orgy

Source: Wallflower at the Orgy

“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.”

“Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.”

World Looks Character Helping Stories Use Pay Events Emotional Scene Notes Mood Opening Landscape Tone Description Describing

Author:Janet Fitch

“"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note lines. It is remarkable that this music was not released until 2003, but a happy event that it was finally put out. This is a must for Breau fans and an important release for all jazz guitar lovers.”

Littles Important Play Beautiful Lines Fans Events Lovers Jazz Notes Extraordinary Guitar Spots Release Remarkable Chords Session Hallmark

Author:Scott Yanow

“Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.”

Stills Events Trump Notes Hearing Hitting

Author:Don Gonyea

“This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.”

Reason Pieces Events Demand Destruction Claims Notes Silent Terror Statements Bloody

Author:Edward Said