Quotes about boo
book thinking buying
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) Arthur Schopenhauer
book reading mean
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
book men race
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
book mean age
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
book life-is-short order
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
book unique hands
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world
book life-is-short men
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
book men thinking
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
book dry-up way
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up...
book communication beer
High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes
book jealous thinking
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books. Antonio Lobo Antunes
book reading writing
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
book long homeland
A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.
book things-in-life important
There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi
book people helping
Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask. Anwar Robinson
book coaching my-own
I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live. Anupam Kher
book character successful
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance. Antonya Nelson
book independent views
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. Bruce Lee
book years records
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. Brooks Robinson
book thinking giving
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position. Bruce Bartlett
book writing radiance
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance. Brooks Atkinson
book car motorcycle
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. Brock Yates
book remember supermodel
I don't remember ever having finished a book. Bridget Hall
book mean careers
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them? Edwidge Danticat
book writing thinking
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
book writing thinking
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
book firsts process
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.
book years individuality
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one. Edward Young
book men library
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
book dedication legs
A dedication is a wooden leg.
book home patron
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate. Edmund Spenser
book character age
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age. Edmund Burke
book law branches
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .