I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
Barbara HamblyTags: reading
Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Tags: reading books communication computers modern-life superficiality critical-thinking vacuity
remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT!
Jaachynma N.E. AguTags: success reading greatness inspiration book self-help revolution aspiration leadership president business relationship improvement accomplishments entrepreneurship risk-it niche greater-glory higher-living the-best-option the-prince-and-the-pauper be-different jaachynma chiyson amazom
You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.
Jaachynma N.E. AguTags: success reading greatness passion inspiration book self-help revolution aspiration leadership president business relationship purpose-of-life improvement accomplishments entrepreneurship risk-it niche greater-glory higher-living the-best-option the-prince-and-the-pauper be-different jaachynma chiyson amazom
Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.
Jaachynma N.E. AguTags: success reading greatness passion purpose inspiration book self-help revolution aspiration leadership president business relationship improvement accomplishments entrepreneurship risk-it niche greater-glory higher-living the-best-option the-prince-and-the-pauper be-different jaachynma chiyson amazom
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
Richard P. DenneyTags: inspirational reading books author
If you say “I don't read” like it's something to be proud of, punch yourself in the face repeatedly.
Donald Bell...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out.
Alan BennettTags: reading books equality knowledge learning prejudice information celebrities biographies
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing
David LodgeTags: reading pleasure desire text
All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.
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