“I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.” ThinkingBelievePersonsHomeReadingI BelieveWifeFieldsPersonalityBiblePassionateMy WifeHanging OutSplitsSplit Personality Author:Troy Polamalu
“There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.” ThinkingWantHandsReadingInterestWatchesSubjectsFashionFieldsWallSticksSillyYour FavoriteFavorite SubjectAdventuring Author:Walt Disney
“I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.” GivingShouldReadingInterestingFieldsPerspectivePercentClients Book:You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are Source: You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are
“All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.” KnowsChildrenReadingParentClassFieldsBasesCookingClubsEngagedTroopsKnow MeOrganizeHomeschoolingField TripCooking Classes Author:Quinn Cummings
“The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.” PeopleHeartLongReadingLinesSleepBehindsMorningDarknessAirFieldsSweetFlowerWalkingDrinkSummerSpringRainCrossesSeasonsGreenWinterDelightGoldenEveningGrassRisingMoonlightBlacknessDissolutionHayGreen ThingsRising In The Morning Author:Leigh Hunt
“By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.” ChildrenYoungReadingLiteratureParentFieldsEasierDrivingChiefsMeritCharacteristicsProvidingPositivelyIndulgenceReformationParent ChildChildren's LiteratureHarmlessness Book:Books and Men Source: Books and Men
“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.” MayLittlesReadingVisionClearSecurityFieldsConsciousGlassesWideTalesUnconsciousOutlookDiariesClosenessGazingCandor Book:Varia Source: Varia
“Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.” WorldMayTwoAgeReadingVisionStudyCreationFieldsLimitsNormalPerceptionTwo ThingsCreation Of The WorldReading History Author:Mahmud Tarzi
“My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book.” IfsLittlesBookRealSelfWantedReadingNextDoorsFieldsReaderAmountLessonsPagesSmartDareFinishedGuidesReal Things Author:Kelly Corrigan
“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.” IfsGivingHas BeensBookJoyReadingMemoriesFieldsGiving UpAdvantageGoldPursuitIf I CouldOccupationReading BooksExplorersMisers Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.” IfsProblemBigsAmericaReadingHoursFieldsTvsAmountSpendingBig ProblemsWatching Tv Author:Jack Canfield
“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!” KnowsNeedsYearsWellsTwoWantedJobsReadingStuffFieldsHugeIndustryTradeSellsPressesLeavingBritishListsSettingSettingsReleaseAgentsAgencyEditorsClientsJournalNew AgePress Release Author:Charles Stross
“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!” ReadingLandFrontsFieldsProjectsInstrumentsManagersHistorianEngineeringEngineersMathematicianDocumentsLegislationCalculatingOperatorsCoordinatesChainsawSurveyorsLand SurveyorBylaws Author:Mark Mason
“But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a real woman and be in this drama. It was incredible that all these women were coming in. And then, Mireille [Enos] walked in the door and she was reading the lines that I had written, and I saw her in that field. I was like, "Wow, she's the one."” RealPlayWantedReadingActorsLinesRolesSawsWrittenDoorsFieldsDramaFemaleTownsIncrediblesWowReal Women Author:Veena Sud
“I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.” KnowsFeelsStoriesWantedReadingDarkFictionMysteryCrimeFieldsGrewReaderGrew UpMalesAppetiteCrime FictionDark Places Author:Megan Abbott
“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.” WayTurnsThreeReadingFoundLinesTeachingMiddleExampleFieldsPoetSpeechBeatsPaidAppreciationExcitedDrivingHandleTrafficAnimatedRelishCasualtiesAndrewButlersSyntaxYeats Author:Adam Kirsch