Research And Writing Quotes

• The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.

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  Sheila Kamerman

  Change   Writing   Anxiety  

  Sheila B. Kamerman (1980). “Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life”, Free Pr

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• Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

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  Stef Penney

  Writing   Class   Long  

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

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  Chancellor Williams

  Leadership   Responsibility   Writing  

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• Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions.

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  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Writing   Successful   Play  

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

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  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lonely   Writing   Research  

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• [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

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  Alex Epstein

  Writing   Ideas   Voice  

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• I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.

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  Karen Abbott

  Mother   Sorry   Writing  

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

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  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Writing   Technology   Errors  

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