Comments on: Do You Think You Can Tell? Powerful Questions That Wake Us Up http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/ Kindness, clarity, confidence, compassion. Watchwords for writing on the web. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/#comment-2938 Joanna Young Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:56:58 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=459#comment-2938 Karen, thanks for sharing that perspective. I think you've summed it up beautifully "they represent possibility and invite introspection" - taking us inside but also onwards and outwards to new and previously unimagined worlds. Joanna Karen, thanks for sharing that perspective. I think you’ve summed it up beautifully “they represent possibility and invite introspection” – taking us inside but also onwards and outwards to new and previously unimagined worlds.

Joanna

]]> By: Karen Swim http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/#comment-2937 Karen Swim Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:39:50 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=459#comment-2937 Joanna, this is a wonderful collection of questions. I loved Brad's comment - what a beautiful way to think of the question. I like questions because they are not finite. They represent possibility and invite introspection. Perhaps it is why the question is so appealing to writers. Without the finality of a period, a question represents freedom, imagination and room for individual responses that uniquely reflect our individuality. Joanna, this is a wonderful collection of questions. I loved Brad’s comment – what a beautiful way to think of the question. I like questions because they are not finite. They represent possibility and invite introspection. Perhaps it is why the question is so appealing to writers. Without the finality of a period, a question represents freedom, imagination and room for individual responses that uniquely reflect our individuality.

]]> By: Joanna Young http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/#comment-2936 Joanna Young Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:22:10 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=459#comment-2936 Scott, I like the image of the questions throwing ideas around your imagination, tossing back and forth. And what a fabulous quote from Emerson. "Tell me what you know" - I'd say that's a key that can unlock our words for sure. Brad, I'm glad, and thanks for making such a positive contribution to it yourself SpaceAgeSage: how fascinating! I've never really thought about punctuation like that before... Hmm... I think I can feel a post forming somewhere :-) Joanna Scott, I like the image of the questions throwing ideas around your imagination, tossing back and forth. And what a fabulous quote from Emerson. “Tell me what you know” – I’d say that’s a key that can unlock our words for sure.

Brad, I’m glad, and thanks for making such a positive contribution to it yourself

SpaceAgeSage: how fascinating! I’ve never really thought about punctuation like that before… Hmm… I think I can feel a post forming somewhere :-)

Joanna

]]> By: SpaceAgeSage http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/#comment-2935 SpaceAgeSage Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:59:17 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=459#comment-2935 Odd bits and pieces of my early school years come to mind now and again, and in reading your post, I remembered how I was always fascinated with the question mark when I first learned about it. Both its shape and function seemed filled with a call to thinking. Other punctuation seems to confine, whereas the question mark is more free to leave the page and follow you home. Odd bits and pieces of my early school years come to mind now and again, and in reading your post, I remembered how I was always fascinated with the question mark when I first learned about it. Both its shape and function seemed filled with a call to thinking. Other punctuation seems to confine, whereas the question mark is more free to leave the page and follow you home.

]]> By: Brad Shorr http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/#comment-2934 Brad Shorr Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:05:48 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=459#comment-2934 Joanna, you have a truly inspiring collection of quotes here. Thanks for getting my day off to a perfect start. Joanna, you have a truly inspiring collection of quotes here. Thanks for getting my day off to a perfect start.

]]> By: Scott McIntyre http://confidentwriting.com/2008/07/do-you-think-yo/#comment-2933 Scott McIntyre Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:03:03 +0000 http://confidentwriting.com/?p=459#comment-2933 Definitely a collection of thought provoking quotes, Joanna. Without doubt, a feast to be digested one at a time. The questions toss my imagination backwards and forwards, working out the answers. Each one explores a unique aspect of who we are. "Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?" "As much as I can," Scott replies :-) I offer an almost oxymoronic quote to the collection: “Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To me, it is a very clever quote because Emerson is proving the very point he is making! Definitely a collection of thought provoking quotes, Joanna. Without doubt, a feast to be digested one at a time.

The questions toss my imagination backwards and forwards, working out the answers. Each one explores a unique aspect of who we are.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”

“As much as I can,” Scott replies :-)

I offer an almost oxymoronic quote to the collection:

“Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To me, it is a very clever quote because Emerson is proving the very point he is making!

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