Attention Quote by Debbie Millman

A girl who pays attention is very cool. It's really hard to pay attention to someone. I understand. I get it. I get bored…

— Chris D'Elia

“If you start reading some book, even a very easy one, or listen to the clearest lecture in the world, with excessive attention, and…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“To understand what you read you must at first understand the mind in which they grew.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“Millions of those who are watching...can read hardly at all. Millions more can read the words but cannot understand them. Of those who can…

— Walter Lippmann

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

— Uma Thurman

“A large number of students don’t read to understand, they read because an examination is around the corner.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So…

— Geoffrey Dutton

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

— Courteney Cox

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

— Marjane Satrapi

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read…

— Adam Zagajewski

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential…

— Alberto Manguel

“Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.”

— M.F. Moonzajer