Active Quote by Khaled Hosseini Download Open image “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” — Khaled Hosseini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Active Creativity Imaginative Reading
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one.… — J. Paul Hunter Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of… — Witney Carson Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
