Helen Keller Quotes
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.
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Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.
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Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
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When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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I tell students that I believe STEM majors have the most exciting opportunities than any other majors in college.
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Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
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True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
