Top 43 Quotes About Dictation
#1. Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.
James Buchan
#2. I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/
responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/
until it's time to go to lunch with the other girls,/
all of us ordering the cottage cheese with half a pear.
Billy Collins
#3. I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Life is nothing more than a clean sheet of paper that most people use to write a dictation on, whereas only a select few ever use it to write their own essay.
Christopher Mart
#5. I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.
Brian Bosworth
#6. An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
Hudson Stuck
#7. Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.
Stephen King
#8. The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
Andre Breton
#10. Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.
Herbert Hoover
#11. Many people believe that the free market, despite some admitted advantages, is a picture of disorder and chaos. Nothing is "planned," everything is haphazard. Government dictation, on the other hand, seems simple and orderly; decrees are handed down and they are obeyed.
Murray N. Rothbard
#12. If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
William Graham Sumner
#13. If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
Tommy Shaw
#15. People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.
George Gissing
#16. (1) the Muse visits during, not before, the act of composition, and (2) the writer takes dictation from that place in his mind that knows what he should write next.
Roger Ebert
#17. [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#18. Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.
Richard G. Scott
#19. One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher Hitchens
#21. The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.
Ayn Rand
#22. The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.
Doreen Virtue
#23. What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
Richard Russo
#24. Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning
sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this.
Anne Lamott
#25. Old marketing was dictation ... new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert!
Ted Rubin
#26. Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Anni Albers
#27. The way to resume is to resume.
If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation.
Gertrude Stein
#28. Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
Steven Pressfield
#29. One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
Horace Mann
#30. I just take dictation for the voices in my head.
D.L. Marriott
#31. We have Dragon [dictation software]," one primary care doctor said, "which you have to be careful of, because I just [dictated] 'Patient's prostate is bothering him' and it turned out 'Patient's prostitute is bothering him.
Robert Wachter
#32. Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.
John Dewey
#33. Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.
Florynce Kennedy
#35. It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
Alice Oswald
#37. If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
Gertrude Stein
#38. Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
Kris Rafferty
#39. I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to all countries. There are some human interests, or we need also international cooperation. We've sometimes confused it with dictation.
George Soros
#40. You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
Martin Amis
#41. When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
Robert Rankin
#42. There is basic equipment required: a headset, a Dictaphone to play the tapes that must be transcribed, and patience, a willingness to become a human conduit as the words of others enter through her ears, course through her veins, and drip out unseen through fast-moving fingertips.
Amy Rowland
#43. Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
