Welcome to our Journal Quotes page! Here, you’ll find a curated collection of insightful and inspiring quotes that delve into various aspects of life, wisdom, creativity, and more. Whether you’re seeking motivation, looking for a thought-provoking quote to include in your journal, or simply in search of some words of wisdom, you’ve come to the right place. Our selection of quotes covers a wide range of topics, offering you a diverse array of perspectives to explore and incorporate into your daily life.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans. Natalie Gulbis
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words – without locks, open on my shelves. Terry Tempest Williams
I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, before moving on to CNBC and NBC. Martha MacCallum
Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind. Natalie Goldberg
There’s pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world. Ari Graynor
Somebody said to me, ‘You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.’ But that makes me a little uneasy. Timothee Chalamet
CBS’s Major Garrett writes in ‘National Journal’ about a new version of the ‘stray voltage’ theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy. John Dickerson
I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found. Tim Ferriss
I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone’s going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down… Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads. Garrett Hedlund
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn’t have any competition. Sumner Redstone
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. Francine Rivers
As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn’t effective unless you had a journal. That’s about all I know. Stephen Cole Kleene
For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word, occasionally the F-word. But it gave me a sense of structure. Suleika Jaouad
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. James Boswell
I supported myself by delivering the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. David Lynch
After my husband died, I could not write much – I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes – not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude. Joyce Carol Oates
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes. Michael Connelly
The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over ‘The Wall Street Journal’ or the ‘Financial Times’ and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid. Peter Mayle
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Jean Cocteau
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. Heather O’Reilly
I don’t keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it’s cathartic. Hilary Duff
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. John Barton
‘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. Jim Beaver
I really like to read when I’m eating – ‘The New York Times’ or the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ paper version. Kevin Nealon
I was an angst-y journal writing kid. Justin Halpern
Rap was more of a release for me, a journal. Kevin Gates
I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal. Elizabeth Daily
The keyboard is my journal. Pharrell Williams
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal. Steven Pinker
Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes. Rana el Kaliouby
I’m always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. Gretchen Rubin
I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and put in your story. Ruskin Bond
I keep a quotes journal – of every sentence that I’ve wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. Richard Powers
Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient. Alexandra Elbakyan
I used to love writing in my journal. Tyra Banks
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on ‘Pretty Hate Machine,’ came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form. Trent Reznor
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal. Dan Deacon
I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones – Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat. Ben Schott
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It’s an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. Harvey Pekar
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. Mandy Moore
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. Michelle Williams
I always start my day with two things that really ground me. One is a book of daily inspirational readings called ‘The Book of Awakening.’ Basically, it talks about having the life you want and being present in the life you have. I also write three things I’m grateful for in a gratitude journal. Cynthia Germanotta
I’ve been keeping a journal since I was in the seventh grade. Jenifer Lewis
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline. Amy Ray
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. Sarah Silverman
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I’m not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. Sumner Redstone
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. Erin Gruwell
The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that ‘Wall Street Journal,’ ‘USA Today,’ and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they’re extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis. Yuri Milner
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal – a small newspaper. Jim Jarmusch
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. Mary Roach
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal’s score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research. Randy Schekman
I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I’ve settled down. Jennifer Egan
I never thought I’d be on the cover of the ‘Atlanta Journal’ unless I killed someone. Chris Robinson
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day. Valerie Bertinelli
I try and journal every day, and that’s where a lot of my lyric comes from. Jessie Baylin
When I write notes in my journal, I’m just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them. Natasha Trethewey
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I’ve been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me – you’re doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. Anthony Doerr
I’ve never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate. Janet Jackson
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. Taryn Manning
I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored. Anthony Fauci
From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don’t know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone. Tyler Joseph
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. Natasha Trethewey
I have published in ‘The New Yorker,’ ‘Holiday,’ ‘Life,’ ‘Mademoiselle,’ ‘American Heritage,’ ‘Horizon,’ ‘The Ladies Home Journal,’ ‘The Kenyon Review,’ ‘The Sewanee Review,’ ‘Poetry,’ ‘Botteghe Oscure,’ the ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ ‘Harper’s.’ Paul Engle
Almost every morning I write in my journal. I’ve been keeping it for a long time – I’ve filled more than 50 books. I write about what’s going on in my personal and spiritual life or what’s going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles. Blake Mycoskie
You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 – more than twice earlier projections. Jeff Goodell
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. Mary Boykin Chesnut
I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music. Kevin Gates
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives. Henry Reed
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. Robert Wilson
I don’t keep a journal. Chris Evans
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. Christa McAuliffe
I feel like in my field, like in fitness, or in health, you kind of need to read journal articles, like health journal articles, or fitness. Chloe Ting
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. Joe Scarborough
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. Francois Gautier
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good. Jim Ryun
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others’ work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. Jonathan Carroll
When my journal appears, many statues must come down. Duke of Wellington
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. Alex Honnold
I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. Nate Silver
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told ‘National Journal’ that the country’s economic woes are deep and endemic. Ron Fournier
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the ‘Wall Street Journal’ took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for. Nathan Myhrvold
I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. Maya Angelou
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal’, the ‘New York Times’, constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. Barbara Corcoran
I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration; I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page. Al Franken
Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can’t find another person, get a journal. I didn’t say make a video on Snapchat. It’s for you, not anyone else. Tracee Ellis Ross
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal. Stephen Cole Kleene
Once you’re done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner. Gail Collins
‘The Dublin Magazine’ has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity. George A. Moore
A journal of the ‘subjective’ kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. Lucy Larcom
Back when I went to Louisiana State University a million years ago, we got the Baton Rouge paper. But if you wanted to read ‘The New York Times’ or ‘The Wall Street Journal,’ you had to go to the reading room of the student union, and you got the edition several days after it had been published, and you had to read it on a wooden stick. James Carville
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train. Walter Dean Myers
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. Joseph C. Lincoln
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. Christa McAuliffe
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot… and memory is important. Judy Collins
I think the word ‘blog’ is an ugly word. I just don’t know why people can’t use the word ‘journal.’ Moby
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent. Ariel Gore
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. Tom Bodett
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods. Robin S. Sharma
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that. Pearl Cleage
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. Michael Nielsen
