Bill Gates

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

American Businessman

Gene Autry

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and jot that down. You don't just write a song right quick, though. You fool around and work with it. You have to keep going over and over it and see if you can't write a song that means something.

American Actor

Wayne Dyer

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

American Psychologist

Joshua Foer

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

American Journalist

Nick Earls

I like to jot down ideas on the back of envelopes and to recognise the potential value in small things. I also like the freedom to think without feeling compelled to write too early. Stories are often better if we can hold back and get to know the characters and the sounds of language.

Australian Novelist

Pete Hamill

As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.

Rudy Vallee

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

American Musician

Chris Cooper

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

Karan Wahi

I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I jot down ideas.

Indian Actor

John Kennedy

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

American Lawyer

Use 'jot' when noting information hastily, suggesting it's a brief or informal process.

Quick Notes

'Jot down' often implies the note is temporary and not needed for a long time.

Temporary Reminder

The verb 'jot' is casual and may not suit formal writing unless reporting direct speech.

Casual Use

A 'jot' as a noun suggests a tiny, almost insignificant presence of something.

Minimal Presence

Often used with negatives to emphasize a complete lack of something.

Expressing Negation

The article 'a' before 'jot' signifies its singular, tiny quantity.

Stress on 'a'

 and asking how they're doing or if they had heard something, you're going to have to schedule that now, it's going to have to have discipline. We've got to check in with the people on the shop floor to make sure they're hearing what they need to hear because it's not going to automatically happen. One of the ideas I have is just jot down at the end of every day

Patty McCord: 4 lessons...

 planning to say, pick up a pen and jot down a phone number or take some notes here, your brain, many areas of your brain collaborate together and work to produce a plan and that plan is turned into action, and it largely engages this one important area called the motor cortex. It's a strip that runs

National Geographic...

 as opposed to seeing it as an unproductive barrier to our work. One specific strategy we can take is to treat our upcoming weekend like a vacation. On Friday afternoon, jot down how you would act and behave as if you were on a holiday. Maybe you and your partner will buy a bottle of wine

3 rules for better...

 where I asked the waitress for a pen. I always had a notebook with me, claiming that it was to jot down ideas in moments of inspiration, but the truth was that I needed to be constantly fidgeting, because in moments of stillness, I found myself counting seconds again.

Our story of rape and...

 Actually drawing them with a mind map. Start small. Pick a word, I choose pickle. Jot it down, then quick as you can, try making connections. What do pickles make me think of? Who eats pickles? What treasured pickle memories do I have from childhood?

How to make your writing...

 How are these people standing? What expressions are on their faces? What are they wearing and drinking? Fix these pictures in your mind's eye and then jot down a sentence or two to describe them. We'll come back to them later. Now on to our story.

How did English evolve?...

 reading a newspaper, trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said or a single word heard on television. Cartoonists are like sponges; they soak up people, places, mannerisms, clothing, and behavior. Sometimes they might jot them down

Inside a cartoonist's...

 she banishes heat from her vicinity into the other hemisphere, where it makes summer. So, being proved wrong by observation and changing their theory accordingly still wouldn't have got the ancient Greeks one jot closer to understanding seasons,

David Deutsch: A new way...

 easily and I imagine that with the leopard being the most adaptable of the big cats struggle not one jot moving into the Mara if you introduced one there and of course people do introduce leopards from time to time of let's say a leopard is

Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...

 state of deep anguish it was very funny and I don't know if you could hear them making the noise in that clip but they made the most amusing sort of angry irritated howling bark and kangana cared not one jot at all so that was very