“Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.” FeelingsReadingFundamentals Author:Michelle Malkin
“We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.” YearsHeartMightActionValuesOrderReadingAttitudePersonalityFundamentalsFingersPositivityPositive AttitudeButtonsUtilityPainlessCoerceImmediate Action Book:Full House Source: Full House
“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.” IfsWantWritingYearsBelieveHumansReadingEasyForgetPleasureEffortTalkingPracticeAmountWalkingTruth IsActivityBehaviorEatingPerformancesFundamentalsInstantExpertsGratificationTemptingHuman ActivityReading And WritingTuningInstant Gratification Author:Donald A. Norman
“For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.” WellsArtWholeChoicesReadingUnderstandingCivilizationTraditionFundamentalsWesternNotionFaithfulCitizenship Author:Os Guinness
“I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.” ThinkingLooksImportantBigsKidsReadingDevelopmentReaderToolsConnectionsFundamentalsBondingLove Of ReadingKids Love Author:Ziggy Marley
“It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.” IfsLongRealityAgeReadingPlanetsTheoryOughtArgumentFunctionDiedFundamentalsSpeciesBelieverMaterialismFlawsAfterlifeSecularSurvivedDisagreementEcosystemsArdentWagers Author:Richard Dawkins
“Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.” NeedsWritingWellsMatterCharacterStoriesCoursesReadingTermRealizingMistakeFictionRocksPagesTwentiesFundamentalsVery GoodLovelyProseRejectsConcertsAbandonedHarmoniousGood StoryDepartureWorkshopsFiction WritingComplicationPicnicsRock Concerts Author:Monica Wood
“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
“Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.” StoriesEarthSongReadingBehindsWonderTreeFundamentalsLaysObviousCommandGoblin Author:Francis Spufford
“It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.” KnowsBookProblemHumanityReadingEssentialsSurvivalFundamentalsConvincedSpectacularApolitical Book:Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist Source: Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist
“I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksMeanUsedReadingLevelsHalfSeeingNormalHappeningsFundamentalsUsed To BeFairyTwinsJust BeingBackwards Book:Among Others Source: Among Others
“At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.” BookShowsHumanityReadingGoalDarkAttitudeFieldsNeededFindingsSurvivalCrisisFundamentalsBrilliantHopefulFascinatingJoyfulManipulateSharksEcologicalDark TimesPaintbrushEcological CrisisBiomimicry Author:Fritjof Capra