Sun Yat-sen

The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.

Chinese Leader

Yusef Komunyakaa

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

American Poet

Maria Semple

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

American Novelist

Hallie Ephron

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

Shoshana Zuboff

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

American Educator

Elizabeth McCracken

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

American Author

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

American Writer

Wentworth Miller

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

English Actor

Nancy Thayer

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Terry Gross

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

American Journalist

To revise means focusing on making something better or more accurate, not just making any change.

Improvement Focus

Revisions can be minor, such as tweaking words for clarity, not only big alterations.

Not Always Big Changes

Think of revising as constructive criticism of your own work to reach perfection.

Constructive Process

When you revise a piece of writing, you examine every detail, not just the general idea.

Detailed Examination

Revising includes checking the flow, style, and coherence of the text, not just spelling or grammar.

Not Just Spelling

Reading your writing aloud is a technique for revising to catch errors you might otherwise miss.

Read Aloud Method

Revising for exams means actively engaging with the material, not passive re-reading.

Exam Preparation

Have a plan for revising, like focusing on weak subjects first or using practice tests.

Systematic Approach

Use different techniques like summarizing, teaching others, or quizzing to revise effectively.

Mix Learning Methods

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 Research has shown that crowds are wise when there's independent thinking. This why the wisdom of the crowds can be destroyed by peer pressure, publicity, social media, or sometimes even simple conversations that influence how people think. On the other hand, by talking, a group could exchange knowledge, correct and revise each other

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 with conditional probabilities that they're revising to figure out how the world works. All right, now that might seem like an even taller order to actually demonstrate. Because after all, if you ask even grownups about statistics, they look extremely stupid. How could it be that children are doing statistics?

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 Scholars are discovering evidence that stories shape culture, and that much of what we believe about life comes not from fact, but from fiction - that our ideas of class, marriage and even gender are relatively new, and that many ideologies which held fast for centuries were revised within the 18th century,

How fiction can change...

 I can help people to sort out what they want to do, but I can't make their life choices for them. Only you can write your story, and all you need are some tools. So what I want to do is I want to edit this woman's letter together, right here, as a way to show how we can all revise our stories.

How changing your story...

 was the ultimate spiritual authority. Plus, he criticized the Church for selling indulgences, the practice of purchasing forgiveness of one's sins by giving money to the Church. Luther believed the Church needed to revise its doctrine by returning to the Bible's teachings

History 101: The...

 and support policies they agree with. But partisan-based cognitive dissonance can lead people to reject evidence that’s inconsistent with the party line or discredits party leaders. And when entire groups of people revise the facts in service of partisan beliefs,

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 Life necessitates a universal world, however, we believe in the security of having a local identity. And this is what the leaders of this region are trying to do. We're trying to be part of this global village, but at the same time we're revising ourselves

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 And if that can be our generation's enduring legacy -- that we took responsibility for the thinking that had been handed down to us, that we revisited it, we revised it,

The way we think about...

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