Best activity & reading Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.”

Reading Games Study Risk Health Activity Equal Instruments Dancing Musical Genuine Boards Concentration Dementia Musical Instruments Board Games Babysitting

Author:Norman Doidge

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.”

Able Reading Effort Greater Reader Activity Range Proportion

Author:Mortimer Adler

“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.”

Thinking Knows Needs Years Mind Kind Reading Effort Talking Activity Mathematics Busy Math Mathematical Contemplation Reasoning Behaviour Simplest Newton Not Talking Calculating

Author:George Spencer-Brown

“Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.”

People World Feels Book Reading Activity Murder Drinking Yearning Adultery Arson

Author:Edith Pearlman

“There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.”

Thinking I Can Might Film Reading Seeing Activity Benefits Come Up Mediums Association Simulation

Author:Chris Ware

“Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.”

Book Certain Turns Reading Activity Waste Time Is Precious

Author:Lionel Shriver

“Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.”

Writing Jobs Reading Half Conditions Activity Novelists Resumes Half Days

Author:Robert Musil

“Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.”

Home Running Reading Four Minutes Activity Equal Sticks Endure Delight Miles Thrilling Hearted Slam Home Run Stout Keenness Slam Dunk

Author:Irving Stone

“Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.”

“It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.”

People Trying Firsts Hard Age Reading Term My Own Activity My Friends Twenties Backgrounds Relate Germany Holocaust Discovering Survived Nazi

Author:Anne Waldman

“Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.”

Needs Reading Consciousness Listening Activity Aim Driven Limitation Motive Listening To Music Reading Poetry

Author:Colin Wilson

“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”

“Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.”

Reading Activity Sticks Keenness

Author:Irving Stone

“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.”

“Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.”

People Want Feels Reading Literature Bits Results Perspective Activity Comfortable Management Complexes Affair Operations Acknowledge Insignificance

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.”

Character Reading Sound Voice Creative Activity

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.”

Mean Together Reading Wife Listening Couple Activity Late Married My Wife Finished Really Mean Quartets Married Couples

Author:Clive James

“Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.”

Ifs Stories Reading Left Creative Successful Activity Track

Author:John Dufresne

“There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.”

Book Age Young Reading House Activity Understood Young Age

Author:Lisa Lucas

“My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.”

Reading Games Activity My Friends Piano Puzzles Crosswords Playing Piano

Author:Rashida Jones

“If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.”

Ifs Needs Trying Body Age Choices Reading Perspective Activity Conscious Yoga Glasses Your Body Statements Finding Yourself Hitting Reading Glasses

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our continuing to engage our minds and spirits. The key for me is in keeping it joyful as an activity.”

Mind Kids Spirit Reading Keys Healthy Activity Passionate Productive Our Future Compassionate Rooted Joyful Continuing Healthy Society

Author:Emma Walton Hamilton

“Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.”

People Writing Book Reading Fiction Activity Tiny Buying Minorities Fiction Writing

Author:Paul Theroux

“Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”

Writing Reading Activity Intellectual Hippie Intellectualism Resigned

Book:A Universal History of Iniquity

Source: A Universal History of Iniquity

“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”

Thinking Eye Spiritual Reading Meditation Written Objects Activity Appeals Visuals Inward Written Word

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”

Writing Book Self Action Reading Acting Effects Acceptance Reader Activity Literacy Writers Reading

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.”

Form Desire Reading Opportunity Social Subjects Serious Reader Activity Members Pages Embrace Intense Intimate Halfway Indication Sexually Family Members Entwined

Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.”

“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”

Giving Doe Book Reading Understanding Forget Effort Failing Judging Reader Activity Deserve Criticism Praise Critical Active Consideration Requirements Good Book

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s. (254)”

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”

Whole Reading Social Activity My Favorite Whole Life Pastime

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.”

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