Quotes 61 till 80 of 274.
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
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Hiring has been a gradual process. We only hire someone when we really need them. It takes a while to get people up to speed. Our rule of thumb is to only hire when absolutely necessary.
Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006 -
Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I keep reading between the lies.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
(2011) -
I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999) -
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
(2011) -
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
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I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
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