Quotes About Blank Slates

#1. We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

Nora Roberts

#2. The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

Christopher Bram

#3. The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

Jonathan Haidt

#4. We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#5. How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

Michael Jackson

#6. I don't want to forget the last time you touched me.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night.

Taylor Swift

#8. Honor the space between no longer and not yet.

Nancy Levin

#9. Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!

Minnelli Lucy France

#10. There were pages and pages of this. It was a confetti of thinking. It began nowhere, led to nothing, and concluded nothing.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

Ayn Rand

#12. It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

Truman Capote

#13. It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Robert W. Service

#14. I have read more about Oprah Winfrey's ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren't spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey's ass.

Caitlin Moran

#15. Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

Paul Kantner

#16. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Reggie Jackson