Stephen Vizinczey Quotes

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

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

I think you should always push yourself to want to grow and learn more and be inspired and develop.

I read, I watch a lot of movies, I'm constantly living, so I'm constantly having more to say.

There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

I feel like I learn something new every day, and that's what's exciting about my job.

For me to get better, I have to pick and learn from the best. It starts with that.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

Study the greats and become greater

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.