Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Live always in the best company when you read.

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I like to be asked about the projects I'm working on. I like to be asked about the books I'm reading, the things I'm interested in, what's exciting me right now, or even politics. Sometimes that's fun.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

I read books by other coaches all the time.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

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

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

I like what I read, I find it intellectually engaging and I don't really have that much time, so I gotta make every bit count. I read magazines and stuff like that, but if I'm going to read a book, I want to come out smarter. It's not to escape, it's to learn.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes