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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. -- Helen Gurley Brown
When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think. -- Seung Sahn
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. -- Charles Scribner, Jr.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. -- Mason Cooley
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. -- Clarence Day
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. -- Wilfred Owen
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. -- John Zorn
I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. -- Robin S. Sharma
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts. -- Miranda Cosgrove
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. -- Edward Gibbon
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.' -- Zosia Mamet
The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones. -- Maria Semple
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week. -- Steve Toltz
I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job. -- Rick Riordan
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading. -- Shahzia Sikander
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. -- Nate Ruess
I am always reading or thinking about reading. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. -- Joseph Brodsky
Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. -- Doris Lessing
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking. -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. -- Sylvia Plath
Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger. -- Confucius
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. -- Iris Murdoch
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. -- David Hume
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. -- William Safire
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. -- Dr. Seuss
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking! -- John Green
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well. -- Monica Youn
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. -- Martin Luther
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. -- Charles Scribner, Jr.
Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. -- Virginia C. Andrews
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work. -- Charlie Munger
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. -- Christopher Morley
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. -- Haruki Murakami
All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive. -- James W. Loewen
In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking. -- Giovanni Guidetti
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. -- John Steinbeck
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. -- Jonathan Swift
As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!" -- Anderson Cooper
We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it. -- David Berg
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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