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I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

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.

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.

I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I'm not particularly inspired, I'll revise or do research or correspondence.

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

Nintendo is probably going to wait to revise its forecasts until early April after it knows for sure what the effect of foreign exchange rates will be on recurring and net profit in the fourth quarter.

Obviously we have a pretty weak economy and this was not unexpected. We knew they were going to have to revise it downward.

If the yen level remains until March, there is a possibility for companies to revise earnings estimates.

If they do pick designs off the wall, what I try to encourage people to do is let us revise it and change it, that way you won't have five people down the line with the same tattoo.

Much of the NCDE is heavily forested so it's hard to see those bears. The bottom line here is we are going to have to revise the recovery plan for the NCDE, because we know we can't make a credible minimum-population estimate based on sightings of females or cubs.

I expect Sony and Matsushita to revise up. Sony's revision could be quite large.

I am in no rush. I just want to learn and be able to use the Arabic language. During the exams I will revise for just a few days before the exam. If I pass, it means that my language is okay. If not, I'll just re-take the class.

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.

Looking at the context of infrastructure improvements in the sector, the numbers of people that are flying and the plans of airlines that are operating, we believe we will revise our estimate upwards in the next four, five months.

Land sales are a sensitive issue, and the public will have an opportunity to comment on the proposal. Then, we will revise the list one more time before transmitting it to Congress.

I think this has the potential to revise the way people look at the Donner Party.

It is going to make economists slightly revise down first-quarter GDP, which they already did with the weaker consumer spending number.

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

We know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat, and we try to get the first four to six episodes down. But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does is we're so critical, and revise ourselves. We then revise it again.

We had expected to see a bigger rebound. On the other hand, some of the pain is lifted by the fact that they did revise up both November and December, so things are still looking pretty good.

We continue to see people travel in spite of high gas prices. And it doesn't make sense to revise the study, since the results might change hourly.

We're creating a community plan for each community and we're working with the county to revise some of its regulations to make rebuilding easier and more planned.

We decided to make these changes as a result of input that we've gotten from graduate deans, ... They wanted us to see if we could improve the validity of the GRE scores. Specifically, they wanted us to revise the test so that the skills that we were measuring were closer in line with the skills students need for their graduate studies.

There is a question mark over May. The Bank of England is overly optimistic on their forecasts so they will have to revise those, but I'm not sure they will do it in time (for May).

We're a counter-marketing program that's not allowed to market. We've had to revise our methods and find creative, cheap ways to get youth actively involved.

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

Those who said the Fed has only one or no more increases coming are going to revise their opinions. The Fed is not finished. It probably has one or two more increases from here.

With this jobless claims number, I don't know what the final figure would be, but some economists may have to revise their payrolls estimates.

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

With the information we obtained during the meeting, we are now able to look at all the suggestions and analyze the data. If a suggestion makes sense from a planning aspect, we're going to look into it as we revise the Master Plan.

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

We will have to revise our projections downwards if oil prices remain at 70 dollars a barrel.

We will pick up the threads from the visit of the president of Pakistan. We will increasingly endeavor to revise the vision of the relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation with Pakistan,

A lot of people say we should revise the tax code to raise more revenue. Overall, I'm more moderate. We have to keep our revenue and expenditures in line with our growth. It is like a family check book. Our spending must be within our means. It sounds simple, but it is a philosophy that escapes many people at the State House.

SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.

to revise some of their preconceptions regarding language acquisition by children, language competence in adults and second-language instruction.

This buoyancy makes us hope we'll proudly overshoot our targets, though we don't want to revise the official target.

Your language is really vivid. It was a lot to take in. What would you do to revise it?

After two or three months of inflation numbers coming in above expectations you start to revise inflation expectations upward, which puts pressure on domestic interest rates.

I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

If the political turmoil continues, we may need to revise growth rates in countries like Thailand." ()

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

If you don't listen to the question entirely, then you are going to revise your answers frequently.

The agreement on the Black Sea fleet base is one part of a bilateral treaty, the second part of which contains recognition of mutual borders. Trying to revise the treaty would be fatal.

The bottom line is that the faculty will approve all of these courses that are included in this index. It will have to be revisited annually. If people want to add courses, we'll have an opportunity for institutions to revise their syllabi and their courses so that they're more in line.

You want to revise and amend those words, senator?

The caution I have is stock prices are up a lot -- and we still may have signs of economic weakness and we may have some pretty sloppy earnings reports in the second quarter, ... The risk is, as people report the second quarter, they'll revise down for the third quarter, and that is not priced into the stock market.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

The committee will require a sustained and significant deviation of such data to revise its forecast.

It suggests the drag on the economy from the trade deficit in the third quarter will not be as great and could help revise up third-quarter GDP a bit,

As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise energy-efficiency standards for common appliances calls out for prompt action.

I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to revise earnings three times within one quarter last year. They don't have credibility.

I don't think the incumbent MPs are ready to revise the problem dramatically.