David Leonhardt Quotes

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

People don't understand complex issues.

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

I do think observing is important in learning.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

Reading is more important than writing.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Have read little and understood less.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.