Quotes 481 till 492 of 492.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
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You should always believe all you read in newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
Doom and glory of knowing who you are (1963) -
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
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You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Epigrams (1911) p.353 -
Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.
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