“The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.” ReadingLinesGreaterMinesPersonalitySkillsPagesAngrySticksComedianRelatableStand Up Comedian Author:Kunal Nayyar
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.” FirstsChildrenUseAbleFormReadingWishEducationStepsLearningCenturyPoliticianFutureSkillsGainsUltimateTwentiesInvestmentEducationalPrioritiesFirst StepsLiteracyAutonomyIlliteracyChildren LearningUnesco Author:Irina Bokova
“Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.” TryingWellsStillsReadingEasyDifficultRoomsSkillsImprovementRoom For Improvement Author:Chris Hayes
“I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.” ThinkingWritingMayMatterWould BeReadingForceDealsTeachNiceWonderfulReaderGeniusSkillsLustBeing NiceGlowingAvidImmersion Author:Tanith Lee
“In my experience with EEG Biofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for medication. Also, EEG biofeedback has helped to decrease impulsivity and aggressiveness. It is a powerful tool, in part, because the patient becomes part of the treatment process by taking more control over his own physiological processes.” PeopleNeedsAbleReadingProcessPowerfulSkillsToolsAddPatientTreatmentMedicationDecreasePhysiologicalAggressiveness Author:Daniel Amen
“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.” IfsThinkingDoeDoneCharacterFeelingsHomeReadingActorsFunHoursRoomsMorningDesignListeningWalkingExerciseSkillsInternalsHotelSomething NewListening To MusicGigsWheatSeparatingHotel Rooms Author:Colin Farrell
“As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.” WorldWayWantBookHelpingSpiritualLife IsReadingLanguageUnderstandingCompassionCommunicationReaderSkillsEssentialsConceptsGuidesActivismCommunication SkillsCompassionateNonviolenceNonviolent Communication Author:Marianne Williamson
“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.” IfsFeelsChildrenBookHomeCareReadingAsksParentInterestRoomsImagineStyleSkillsOur ChildrenBreatheTeenagerYour ChildrenPushingUnusualNurtureQuirkyNonconformist Author:Alexandra Robbins
“People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.” PeopleIfsKidsReadingGrowsGrowing UpInformationSkillsMathMath Skills Author:Tony Kushner
“Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.” ThinkingMindBookCountrySchoolFacesGirlReadingWalksTeachSkillsTrainSlaveDevelopingThrownIllegalDictatorAcidBansCognitiveDeveloping Countries Author:Karin Slaughter
“Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved.” TryingMindHumansChildrenBodySchoolRememberReadingLanguageWalksTechnologyWrittenObjectsPersonalitySkillsTasksHarderSpeciesWideHuman MindArithmeticKnackWritten Language Author:Steven Pinker
“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.” KindSometimesLightBeautifulReadingGivenInformationSkillsPhotographerPhotographCloudsContemporaryLandscapeDramaticBuriedMundaneSiftingPretty PictureBeautiful Landscapes Author:Lucy R. Lippard
“I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.” IfsThinkingFeelsWellsChildrenMadeAgeSchoolYoungLyingReadingBitsWrittenStupidSkillsSpellsYoung AgeSpellingWritten WordDon't Lie Author:Erin Richards
“Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.” WritingDoeImportantMomentsReadingSkillsChaosWriting And ReadingSpecificity Author:George Saunders
“I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.” ThinkingKidsJoyReadingStruggleGoneAchieveStudentsSkillsAchievementPressureThese DaysEmphasisDistractedAssessment Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.” PeopleIfsWorldRealMovingReadingAbilitySkillsScaryComplexityAcquireReal WorldSubtletyMoving Out Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.” WritingLittlesReadingSpeakClassSkillsGet BetterHarvardReading And WritingWriting Skills Author:Jeremy Lin
“Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.” WritingReasonHelpingReadingAnswersSucceedSkillsReason WhyDescriptionPrime Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.” PeopleGivingFeelsBookCharacterReadingImaginationAbilityFictionCreativityMetsSkillsEmpathySkinsLive LifeImagination And CreativityReading Fiction Author:Ann Patchett
“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.” ShowsWantedReadingPracticeKeysSkillsMapsLegendsNorth Of Beautiful Author:Justina Chen
“[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple." You bought a couple of what?" Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one." He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I like the way your mind works." ~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells” IfsWayWantGivingMindFirstsWellsHas BeensI CanBookMightRomanceNightThreeReadingWifeCouplePleaseSkillsExpectationsHistoricalWarningQuartersUnrealistic Expectations Author:Catherine Anderson
“Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you reading Tolkien?' I shrugged, then had to dodge the potted geranium he threw at me. 'After five hundred years, you've read just about everything. Besides, he had hella world-building skills.” WorldYearsEyeReadingFiveBuildingCoupleSkillsHundredWindowThirdsGoldenDodgeFudgeLedgesGolden Eye Author:Karen Chance
“My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.” HumorFunnyLyingReadingAbilityEffortSkillsDrinkingNegotiationTrue Strength Book:Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.” ThinkingWorldGivingMeanTwoImportantCharacterStoriesTurnsReadingSoundLinesAbilityBrainFictionNovelQuietSkillsComplexesFollowingDisappearFasterStayingBitesEmpatheticSound Bites140 CharacterReading Fiction Author:Ann Patchett
“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.” ArtReadingSkillsMajorityMinorities Author:Julian Barnes