Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.