Top 1200 Reading Habits Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

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.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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 think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

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

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.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

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

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

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

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

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

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

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

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.

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

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

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

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

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

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.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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

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

I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

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.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.