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In third grade, my... | In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people. Copy | ||
It is a good... | It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. Copy | ||
It is generally recognised... | It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. Copy | ||
I've never known any... | I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Copy | ||
Leadership is not about... | Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. Copy | ||
Leadership is the art... | Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. Copy | ||
Life is hard, and... | Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong? Copy | ||
Make your own Bible.... | Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. Copy | ||
Mastery of reading and... | Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still, more so life. Copy | ||
My alma mater was... | My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Copy | ||
My mother was a... | My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning. Copy | ||
No book is really... | No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. Copy | ||
No matter how busy... | No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Copy | ||
No time for reading.... | No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people – even for caring about them – for that, yes. Copy | ||
One day, you will... | One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again. Copy | ||
One must be an... | One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Copy | ||
One of the reasons... | One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. Copy | ||
People say that life... | People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Copy | ||
Reading is a basic... | Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Copy | ||
Reading, after a certain... | Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Copy | ||
Resolve to edge in... | Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Copy | ||
School is something that... | School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. Copy | ||
Since graduation, I have... | Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. Copy | ||
Some day you will... | Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. Copy | ||
Sometimes, reading my own... | Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing. Copy | ||
Spreading the word about... | Spreading the word about depression is my mission. I am working to build awareness, educate people about the symptoms, and change public opinion and individual attitudes about depression. Copy | ||
Stop researching every aspect... | Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it. Copy | ||
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver.... | 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. Copy | ||
The beauty of reading... | The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know. Copy | ||
The best students come... | The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. Copy | ||
The joke in our... | The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. Copy | ||
There are certain things... | There are certain things a boss does not share with his employees. His salary, that would depress them. His bed, it— And I am not going to tell them that I’ll be reading their e-mails. Copy | ||
There are two ways... | There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Copy | ||
There is creative reading... | There is creative reading as well as creative writing. Copy | ||
Through the reading of... | Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Copy | ||
To read a newspaper... | To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Copy | ||
To someone who touches... | To someone who touches each life you enter, spreading joy to everyone you meet: may the love and happiness you share with others return to you tenfold. I wish you many more happiest of birthdays! Copy | ||
Travel stories teach geography;... | Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. Copy | ||
We are the Bibles... | We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the creeds the world is needing; we are the sermons the world is heeding. Copy | ||
We live and breathe... | We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you. Copy | ||
We recommend for the... | We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. Copy | ||
When I finished reading... | When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now. Copy | ||
When I go to... | When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word. Copy | ||
When I was in... | When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. Copy | ||
When I write, I'm... | When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience. Copy | ||
You can learn more... | You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books. Copy | ||
You can make positive... | You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. Copy | ||
You know, you hear... | You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher. Copy | ||
You learn more about... | You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book. Copy |
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