Journal Quotations

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with friends and cliques and getting picked on, or boyfriend breakups.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a combination of anger, certainly confusion, and just tremendous sadness.

When you talk about an icon and a legend, an extraordinary individual, as well as a people's person, it's difficult where to start about the man. He was the kind of person where all you would have to say is Amby and people knew who you were talking about. People loved him. On the day of his passing, the headline in the (Providence) Journal read, A one, and last, of a kind. In all of the years that I worked with Amby, it's hard to pinpoint what stands out the most, except that he was always there.

There is no question in our minds that the stem cell paper published 19 May 2005 by the journal Science needs to be retracted.

What a jury is going to get is A, Merck fudged on the details. B, the fudge was in their favor. C, it was on purpose. D, Merck lied about fudging, or at least covered it up. And E, the most prestigious medical journal in the United States of America has called their hand on it and said this is unethical and wrong.

We acknowledge the considerable work that has to be undertaken by publishers to make the transition to a new structure for their electronic journal content. However, by supporting a common structure for e-journal content we have established a shared international context in which such migration can now proceed.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

I don't keep a journal.

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.

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I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.

Basically, we're following our customers. If you take The Wall Street Journal, our customers don't just think of The Wall Street Journal newspaper, they think of it as a franchise.

I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a frowny face and added some little notes about what I should have done better, and then underlined it. Turns out that is one of my biggest climbing achievements.

He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough.

He's got to show the right-wingers that he's got backbone. Go ahead, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. Show them you're tough.

Whatever the person wrote in their journal was not against the law.

Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

I thought well, if a little kid is going to take off to her grandmother's, she must, in my mind, like the woods and nature. The journal thing comes right up again.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

Over the past 30 years, our studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between journal article citations and peer esteem, and this is reflected in professional awards like the Nobel Prize.

Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.

I think one thing I enjoyed most was doing medical research for the doctor's journal because I really had to teach myself 19th century medicine.

The actual idea took about five seconds. It took me maybe an hour to think it through and understand the impact, but the actual idea just popped in my head, ... I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Tax Act of 2005 ... I was interested to see what the federal government was doing to help the victims of the hurricanes.

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

We continue to hear from our readers that they want the information offered in the Business Journal on a more frequent basis. Publishing every other week will give those readers what they've been asking for, while giving us the opportunity to better serve the business community by providing more information in a timelier manner.

There are over 30 journal entries for just one transaction.

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

(Wall Street Journal writer Troy McMullen) sort of lumped it together with Montana and Wyoming like wastelands, frozen wastelands, and made it sound like it's such a horrible burden to own such a property.

When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I would be reading, for instance, if I was up in the White Mountains, I would have a collection of Hawthorne short stories. I'd be reading the stories by Hawthorne while I'm in the place that he's writing about - and then I'd be writing in my journal thinking about the literature and thinking about the place and trying to find where the two connect.

We're not in the fashion business, as the Wall Street Journal wrote the other day. We're in the sports business, and there's a big difference.

What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman's question: "Who am I?", but the comic question, the Bewildered Man's question: "Am I?" A comic --a comedian, that's what the Journal keeper is.

When I started, one of the big selling points of the Wall Street Journal was that it had complete stock stats. Truck drivers and teachers were buying the Journal because it was the best place to find that material. Now that data is everywhere.

We could promote the 'care and feeding' of journalists to develop a network sympathetic to Philip Morris, ... Using this approach in the U.S. we have been able to get favorable articles/commentaries in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal , National Review and reach millions of the public through the numerous syndicated columnists that are in our network.

The results released in today's American Journal of Public Health should lead any medical professional to realize a prescription for change needs to be written. For the American taxpayer, its time to ask for increased accountability and expect a better return on a $60 billion investment,

It would be as if a print advertiser said 'Gee, The Wall Street Journal reaches all business people in the U.S., so why do I need to advertise in other business publications?' But the truth is it does work to advertise elsewhere.

It was a journal, and somebody had handwritten in this journal 'suicide bomber. The other thing he was doing was clutching a backpack.

These changes will improve the strength of the management team for our customers throughout Gold Country Media, and provide the Auburn Journal with a stronger community presence.

The State Journal still has the broadest local reach of any local media, and it remains a great vehicle for delivering news. But we're enhancing our online news, too, to appeal to a new generation of readers.

Sometimes with the initial shock, you have to have some down time as far as crying, grieving and sometimes go home and be by yourself or with parents. If they do go home, we meet with them and discuss some things that they can do when they do go home - whether it be journal writing, writing a letter to that person telling them what they meant. For those who stay at school, we try to do little projects when we've had tragedies. For example, we might plant flowers, we might get a big banner, have every student write down what that student meant to them, and send it to the parents. There are various things that we do.

Teachers incorporate journal writing to expand comprehension. Throughout the month, the students are encouraged to draw pictures and write essays to decorate the bulletin board outside the principal's office.

Science and Nature should take the lead in the wake of this scandal. In a world where financial incentives can warp the scientific enterprise just as much as the lust for scientific prestige, it is incumbent that journal editors have strict conflict-of-interest disclosure policies. And, given the voluntary nature of disclosure, they should have teeth like a three-year ban on publishing for failing to disclose.

Normally there are at least some questions where the students come from a direction that's pretty different from that of the Journal readers, and you'll notice that's not really true here.

The movie 'Above and Beyond' starring Robert Taylor didn't get anything right, ... 'Above and Beyond' script writers put the words, 'Oh my God, what have we done?' into my mouth,' Tibbets said. 'I never said that. Bob Lewis (the copilot) wrote 'my God' in his journal he was keeping on the flight. That's how I remember it, anyway.'

A decision of this magnitude is never spontaneous. My job is to make sure the journal operates smoothly.

Do you think The Wall Street Journal is a subversive publication?

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Denise was a remarkable addition to Pensacola, steering the News Journal to award-winning performances and presenting our city issues with fairness and insight. She was also a willing volunteer to take on tough assignments for the betterment of our community. And she did all of it with such style.

A word of advice: a person's journal is the raw material. A story is made from these events. Use the journal to craft the story.

A male was observed by his fellow passengers as having a journal and hand written on the journal were the words 'suicide bomber.

They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.

It's like requiring The New York Times to wrap the front section of The Wall Street Journal around the newspaper.

The next question is the New England Journal flap. It seems to erode their credibility.

It's disappointing. We got some good reviews. We had two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal liked the picture. We're hoping that with so many good reviews (people) will find the film.

They write in a journal about the whole immigration process. They talk about coming over from their homeland, their journey across the sea and their experience at Ellis Island.

The Journal is spreading rumors that Microsoft's music subscription service -- itself a rumor -- is on hold due to heavy royalty demands from labels.

I'm not one of the editors of the Wall Street Journal , but I want to use the Dow as a market leading indicator, and for that you want a group of highly influential stocks, even when the news is bad. GM still represents a good part of the auto industry.

I'm delighted of course. The award is all the more meaningful to me because I worked at The Southern Review for so long, and it's a journal that meant and means a lot to me.

In a world where readers are viewing The Wall Street Journal more as a franchise and less as a channel of distribution, one could envision a different structure that may or may not have a stand-alone print publisher.

In most markets, a successful business model allows for both suburban publications and a large daily newspaper, under common ownership, to work in tandem rather than as separate units. I believe this realignment will allow both the Journal Sentinel and CNI to better serve our readers and advertisers with one cohesive management team and a shared vision for future growth.

I like putting my thoughts out there. Sometimes, it's just a relief to get things out. It's just easier than writing in a journal because the computer is part of my everyday life.

I'm just trying to soak up every moment that I can and just really savor it. Just writing in a little journal that I have -- for myself, for the future and for my kids. Just so that I will remember this incredible experience.

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.

Clearly, the results reported in this issue of the journal are revolutionary.

Clearly there is an attraction to saving money. Readers also apparently prefer smaller size newspapers. Of course, the Journal has always held itself above that -- until now.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

My journal is my life's companion.

I don't normally take the time to journal, so the class helped me to cultivate that discipline. Now when I get a 'wild hare' idea, I go to my journal to get to a deeper level of what's truly going on.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.