Quality of reading
Want to improve your quality of life? Improve the quality of your reading. Jyoti Guptara – English writer and business consultant (b. 1988)
Reading
Read new
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami - Japanese writer (b. 1949), from "Norwegian Wood" ("ノルウェイの森", 1987)
Lecture
La lecture d'un livre est comme l'exploration d'un univers. par Marguerite Duras - née Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, écrivaine et réalisatrice française (1914-1996)
Knowledge increases like compound interest
Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), to students at the Columbia University (c. 2002)
Reading > Writing > Thinking
You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well. Paul Graham – English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur and author (b. 1964), in a Twitter message from November 16th, 2021
The fine difference
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Zig Ziglar - American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)
Reading
If people stop reading, they stop thinking, and if they stop thinking, they become vulnerable to manipulation. Leaders are readers. The connection between reading and success (personal and societal) cannot be overemphasized. Jyoti Guptara – English writer and business consultant (b. 1988), Quotations book 2022
Baiting
You have got to write the first sentence of a story so that whoever reads it will want to read the second one. William Faulkner - American writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1949 (1897-1962), from a from December 1951, published in Joseph Blotner (ed.): "Selected Letters of William Faulkner" (1978)
Reveal
There are more truths in a good book than it"s author meant to put in it. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Austrian writer (1830-1916), from her "Aphorisms", published in "Collected Works", book 1 (1893)
Read to survive?
Dinosaurs didn"t read, now the"re extinct. Coincidence? rhetorical question
Brief and clear
Whatever you are teaching be brief so that impressionable minds may readily understand what you’ve said, and hold fast to it. Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta, percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horaz) - Roman writer (65-8 B.C.), from "Ars poetica" 335 (c. 19 B.C.), Quotations book 2020
Laugh
Each learns more readily, and retains more willingly, what makes him laugh than what he approves of and respects. Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud quod quis deridet quam quod probat et veneratur. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horaz) - Roman writer (65-8 B.C.), from "Epistularum liber secundus" (c. 14 B.C.), Quotations book 2020
Leggere
Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere. Carlo Goldoni - drammaturgo e librettista italiano (1707-1793), da "La Pamela", Act 1, Scena 14 (1750) The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Carlo Goldoni - Italian playwright and librettist (1707-1793), from "La Pamela", Act 1, Scene 14...
считывание
Отлично думается, читая. Лев Николаевич Толстой - русский писатель (1828-1910), из своих дневников (1857), Котировочная книга 2019
Reading strenghtens
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison - British politician and writer (1672-1719), in "The Tatler", N° 147 (1709), Quotations book 2018
Reading as key
Someone who understands how to read, possesses the key to great deeds, to undreamed possibilities. attributed to Aldous Leonard Huxley - British writer (1894-1963)
Bon livre
A good book is a good friend. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - French writer (1737-1814), from "Paul and Virginie" (1788), Quotations book 2018 Un bon livre est un bon ami. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - écrivain français (1737-1814), de "Paul et Virginie" (1788), Brochure de citation 2018
Quoting better
It"s a MUCH more effective quotation to attribute it to Aristotle, rather than to Will Durant. Frank F. Herron - American lecturer for communication sciences (b. 1952) [Aristotle: Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.); Will Durant: American philosopher and priest (1885-1981)]
Second thought
Writing is the art of the second thought. René J. Cappon - American author and journalist (1924-2007), Quotattions book 2014
Citations
Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d’autant plus me dire. I do not say so much of others, but to get a better opportunity to explain myself. Michel de Montaigne - French writer and philosopher (1533-1592), from "De l’Institution des Enfans", in the first book of his essays (1580)