Top 1200 Importance Of Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Confusion and mistakes come when we forget the importance of God's word as our unwavering guide.

I like people, I really do. I like meeting people. But most of the time I would rather be at home reading a book than reading in a bookstore. It's a performance, and it ends up being all right, and then you have a nice shot of bourbon afterwards, and it's all good. I want to please people. I want to be nice. I want to be liked. As a result I say yes to everything. But it takes a lot of vital energy out of me.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

The establishment of rail line and railway network expansion has always been of prime importance.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

Each and every day, I think about the importance of earning my paycheck and playing well.

I can not express more the importance of treating your teammates, opponents and coaches with the utmost respect.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

The intensity and importance of each possession. That's the thing about the NBA that doesn't always translate to television.

Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

I was a bit of a workaholic in the past and now I realize the importance of making room for what matters in life.

In my other work as a self-defense instructor, I have taught the importance of listening to one's gut instincts.

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.

I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I understand the importance of it.

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

I always seek to improve, but I also give a lot of importance to food and sleep too.

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.