Authorship Quote by Joseph Joubert Download Open image “Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.” — Joseph Joubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authorship Books Brain Exercise Fitness Food Giving Littles Young
“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Recent science supports the idea that until children’s brains are fully developed (at around the age of 25), they’re more likely to be impulsive… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“...the brain is like a muscle, and if you don't exercise it by reading and doing creative stuff, it'll get weak and mushy.” — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“How can we help young people develop as creative thinkers so that they’re prepared for life in this ever-changing world?” — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young? — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.” — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced… — William Banting Copy Share Image
“We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.” — Yusuf A. Leinge Copy Share Image
It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges. — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual… — Pure Calisthenics Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope—and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing—that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image