5 Quotes & Sayings By Paul Collins

Paul Collins is an author, speaker, business owner, IT consultant, and university professor. He is the author of six books, including the Platinum best-seller "The Invisible Gorilla" (Amazon Best Seller in both Business and Self-Help categories), which has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week , Newsday, The New York Times , Forbes , Barron's, The Washington Post , Seattle Times , Chicago Tribune , San Jose Mercury News , Los Angeles Times , and other leading newspapers and magazines. "The Invisible Gorilla" has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Collins is also the co-author of "Think and Grow Rich", and his latest book is "The Art of Persuasion: Developing the Art of Making Money."

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If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity. Paul Collins
I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases.
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I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover. Paul Collins
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It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books... It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater part of humanity that is the common lot. We may, in fact, divide our fellow-creatures into two branches - those who read books and those who do not. Paul Collins
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Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg. Paul Collins