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A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea… — Nicholas Negroponte
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. — Unknown Author
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the… — Eric Allin Cornell
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in… — Neville Cardus
That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you. — Howard G. Hendricks
The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. — Howard G. Hendricks
Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm… — Luis Guzman
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like… — Studs Terkel
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome"… — Tom Peters
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I… — Bill Cosby
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this… — Henry David Thoreau
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be… — Umberto Eco
Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no… — Ben Casnocha
I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the library had books… — Dorothy Bryant
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside — Samuel Johnson
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not… — Samuel Johnson
We read books to find out who we are. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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