A Quote by Jacob Weisberg

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

Jacob Weisberg

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Absorbing Activity Book Collecting Largely Male Mostly Solitary

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Jacob Weisberg
American - Journalist
Born: 1964

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Karl Marx

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

Caroline Kennedy

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.

John McGahern

There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male activity. In fact, there is some correlation [between making war and] having an excess of males in the population.

Jaron Lanier

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

Jane Harman

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

Anh Do

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Dacia Maraini

Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.

Ron Kaufman

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Dave Barry

I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

Uzodinma Iweala

The venture community is largely male.

Sandra Lerner

Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Garik Israelian

I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.