Top 1200 Importance Of Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards.

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.

The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.