A ratio of failures ordsprog

en A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
  Margaret Atwood

en It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes.
  John Ciardi

en During the Kobe earthquake in Japan, sex ratio drops. The collapse of the east German economy, sex ratio drops. The major smog in London in 1952, sex ratio dropped. Variation in the economy such that you get very bad economic times in Sweden over a century and a half, sex ratio drops.

en I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

en Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.
  George Carlin

en I'm always writing from a place in my experience. Generally, I'm writing about something that I don't understand, and I'm writing to make sense of it. It's a discovery process. In that way, it's kind of therapeutic for the writer. If you stumble on something really good, like I did with 'Mercy Now,' then it becomes therapeutic for more than just the writer.

en The reason ISTEP costs more is because it has writing and problem solving on it. To take writing off of Indiana's test is to turn us around and go backward.

en In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
  Doris Lessing

en Our work demonstrates a fundamental error in the current challenges to Darwinism. New techniques allowed us to see how ancient genes and their functions evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. We found that complexity evolved piecemeal through a process of Molecular Exploitation -- old genes, constrained by selection for entirely different functions, have been recruited by evolution to participate in new interactions and new functions.

en Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
  William Blake

en I don't think Decatur was built. It evolved. It has the quality developers are looking for. You know — live/work/play. But you can't duplicate character.

en Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly laid out before we'd demo a note, ... This time around we kind of demoed the songs and left them as skeletons. We let most of the songs' development happen in the studio. Pex Tufvesson is a genius, no doubt about it. And some of the songs changed just a little bit. But others, they became almost unrecognizable.

en It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
  Edward de Bono

en [A seven-year chart illustrates how health care and the broad market trend in opposite directions.] The purple line is the S&P 500, ... The green line is a ratio of the XLV divided by the S&P 500. The green ratio line bottomed at the end of 2000 as the S&P 500 was peaking. The XLV/S&P ratio peaked in the fourth quarter of 2002 as the S&P 500 was bottoming.

en If the results had been about 53% against 47%, then we would have a reason for action. Although, the ratio there is different and we should respect people's choice.


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