I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
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.
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.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.