“A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.” BookReadingMankindPolicyIgnoranceFindingsMassDevilPoisonRepent Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.” IfsBelieveEndsHardGodHelpingChristianSpiritualSpiritFaithReadingBeliefGrowsReligiousLordRocksPositionProudBecomingHolyFindingsBiblePrejudiceConvincedChristian InspirationalDoctrineHoly SpiritPastorAmmunition Author:Jim Cymbala
“Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.” IfsWritingKindLittlesIdeasDifferentMomentsReadingStuffHoursWeekMonthsSceneFindingsScriptsDialogueDifferent Ideas Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.” ThinkingFeelsTryingWould BeReadingNextCareersHavensEmotionalParticularInvolvedFindingsProjectsPlanningFlavorGet InvolvedArcsInvestigatingFeels Just Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.” WantWellsChildrenImportantUseReadingEasyCasesStudyMastersEssentialsElementsFindingsFilledMetaphorTechniqueTherapyCapturedMillsTherapeuticDormantMiltonCase StudiesClinicians Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig
“What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.” WorldWayWellsStoriesAbleCoursesReadingHoursWrittenInformationSourceFitFindingsTake MeAnother WorldGemsWell Written Author:Linda Sue Park
“If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.” IfsSeemsReadingBitsWiseWrittenMastersFindingsPleasantNonsenseAmusementMockery Author:Francois Rabelais
“I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."” PeopleKnowsYearsBookShowsProblemKidsReadingStarsKnow HowGraceRocksDrugFindingsBackgroundsRecoveryShow MeCeoPillsDiariesRock StarShatteredHeroinCoke Author:Nikki Sixx
“For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .” BookDreamReadingStrangeFitFindingsEndureFamiliarShakingCommonplaceFeverMalariaRecurrenceStrange Dreams Author:M. F. K. Fisher
“As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.” PeopleWantReadingActorsReaderCreaturesLimitsFindingsAskingMagazinesTraitsGuardianAvid Author:Zoe Saldana
“I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.” BookFormReadingNextNew YorkInternetFindingsLibraryVersionsSurfingBack WhenBooks And ReadingPublic LibrarySurfing The Internet Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.” ThinkingWritingBookTodayReadingFindingsGood WritingGood Reading Author:Saul Williams
“My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.” PeopleLooksReadingBandFindingsAdmireInterviewsLook UpComposerBrazilian Music Author:Bradford Cox
“Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.” YearsSometimesReadingImaginePlansHonorFindingsMarkBoundariesMonumentSurveyors Author:Mark Mason
“For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.” WritingDreamReadingFictionBalanceFindingsHistoricalHistorical Fiction Author:Anthony Doerr
“I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.” GivingReadingEnergyChallengesSpaceMeditationQuietFindingsReflectionGive MeClarityEnthusiasmSpace BetweenNew ChallengesQuiet Time Author:Jaime Murray
“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStoriesRememberReadingCommunityPowerfulQualityStruggleFindingsOrdinaryEverydayDrawingStuckOrdinary PeopleTerrificVery PowerfulSacrednessStudsCommunity Organizing Author:Barack Obama
“Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.” GivingStillsBookEndsReadingProcessSourceGiving UpFindingsResearchOriginalsFundamentalsPhotographInterviewsReading BooksPreciseNever Giving UpPromotingDianaLove Of Reading Author:Lisa Immordino Vreeland
“Some findings reveal extroverts as more adept at reading nonverbal cues, and attribute this to the extrovert's greater interest and experience with social interactions. Another line of research using subliminal images of facial emotion found introverts to be more sensitive to the differences, and hypothesized that this may be why introverts regulate the amount of incoming social information.” MayReadingFoundSocialInterestDifferencesLinesEmotionGreaterInformationAmountFindingsResearchSensitiveAttributesInteractionIntrovertFacialSocial InteractionAdeptExtrovertsSubliminalNonverbal Author:Laurie Helgoe
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.” BookEndsMatterLightActionCoursesReadingDifficultFindingsPagesGardenTalesGoldenGrassChaptersAprilHappy EndingsSunnyOctober Author:Neil Gaiman
“I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.” WellsBookReadingWeekChangedFindingsEmptyColourFlatsImmediacy Author:Doris Lessing
“Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.” MenNeedsHardRealityRememberOrderReadingImaginationLinesRocksFindingsSafetyBlindFollowingMathChineseMapsInstructionSheetsMy ImaginationPinsStraight LinesBulbsElectronicsBlind ManPlumbingCarpentryFollowing OrdersSafety Pins Author:Tom Waits
“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.” LongBookEnoughWantedReadingDoorsFindingsOpening Book:The Uncommon Reader Source: The Uncommon Reader
“Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.” WayDoeMadeTwoStoriesProblemSeemsFormReadingRealizingImaginationNaturalSilenceFourImagineShapesFindingsTestsBasesAbsolutesFinalsDefinedOrange Author:Truman Capote
“I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.” PeopleWorldWayTryingYearsWantedReadingFictionHappenedFiguresAdventureTheoryFindingsExcitingFilledScience FictionConclusionRules Of LifeExciting Life Author:Robin Wasserman
“Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.” WorldWantNeedsWritingChildrenImportantBookStoriesKidsFormReadingSoundFictionGoneWiseWindFindingsAnd LoveImportant ThingsBraveLove StoryBe BraveLove Of ReadingChildren Book Author:Neil Gaiman