Top 1200 Book Learning Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one thing, most of my picture books rhyme. Also, when I write a picture book I'm always thinking about the role the pictures will play in the telling of the story. It can take me several months to write a picture book, but it takes me several years to write a novel.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny.

The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I was learning. I'm so grateful for the poets in my life. Because of them I always knew the importance of each word, line.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

When it comes to managing crocodiles, we are learning that it is actually more important to manage people. Learning how to keep people safe from crocodiles will ultimately protect visitors to croc territory as well as the crocodilians themselves.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.

There's a lot of failing. Failure to me is a lot more important than success because the learning from it is so important. You have to be willing to fail, to step outside of yourself and you can't have a comfort zone. I had to learn that and I'm still learning that.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

?'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.