“Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.” PeopleLongBookReadingLinesAttentionCreativityListeningAskingFocusedMeaningfulCuriousReading BooksDiscourseDeep ThoughtStarbucksGood QuestionsLong BookFocused Attention Author:Joshua Rogers
“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.” TryingMarriageHistoryWifeListeningPagesMagazinesReading BooksPlayboyPlayboy MagazinePlayboy Bunnies Author:Barry Goldwater
“When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.” BookReadingComedyGenerationsHumourListeningNineMy TimeReading BooksPrevious GenerationsGoons Author:Paul Merton
“I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.” YearsArtBookReadingLanguageLinesResultsListeningEverydayPhilosopherOrthodoxPhenomenonReading BooksPrivilegedSociologyAnthropologyArt HistoryProfessional Life Author:David E. Cooper
“It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.” BelieveKindBookFeelingsSongReadingRealizingCommonListeningPromiseReading BooksDepressingPop Song Author:Will Sheff
“The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.” WantBookDoneFilmReadingClearListeningInternetReading BooksListening To MusicImplicationsBrowsing Author:Evgeny Morozov