#pencil

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#big #enter #everything #first #general

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#bringing #college #degree #get #pencil

What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#believe #believe-and-achieve #change #christ-in-you #environment

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. ↗

— Michael LeBoeuf

#any #attention #automatically #concentration #down

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#away #cars #children #crayons #drawing

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#act #breaking #even #i #know

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#lead #led #must #pencil #water

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#always #any #comes #hour #i