The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics. . Henry Kissinger
Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.
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Mayra Mejia
There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.
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J. Lincoln Fenn
Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.
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A.A. Patawaran
Women are huntresses until the day we die. Our perpetual thirst for the chase endures until our last breath. It remains while we are too focused on our careers to pursue love, when we have been burned by past relationships, and even when we are...
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Alisha Ashton
Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to winter's approach. We forget the fogs, the slush, the sore throats an the...
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Denis Mackail
More Quotes By Henry Kissinger
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.
