Top 1200 Importance Of Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Festivals are where I see other peoples' films, where we talk, where I get to learn what was working about the film, I get to have a discussion with viewers... and people who enjoy reading films - I enjoy reading other peoples' films, and what discussions can come of that.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

I give importance to work ethics, and there is no shortcut.

I give importance only to the story of a movie.

There is no point in doing a lengthy role if there is no importance in it.

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn't understand the importance of scheduling.

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

I always give a lot of importance to the cups.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.

Coming from B2K, I understand the importance of camaraderie.

When Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too.

I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.

I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.

Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

I am learning the importance of living in the moment.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

You have to give every opponent the importance they deserve.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.