Richard J. Roberts Quotes

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

I read books by other coaches all the time.

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I love to read and learn.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.

I was never a bookworm at all.

Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the table.

That's one thing that's a passion for me: teaching.

I would always read a lot.

Kids who read are bright.

My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

I went to one year of college. I only went to class twice a quarter to pass the tests. I thought it was a waste of time.

I try to read as much as I can.

I think math is exciting, you know.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.