Quotes of: Worth-reading Keyword

The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly.

Apoorve Dubey

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

Ashton Kutcher

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Ideas are worth a dime dozen, but people who put them into action are priceless

African Proverb

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.

Sorin Cerin

Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

Seth Adam Smith

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

Vincent Piazza

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Woodrow Wilson

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Francis Picabia

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Plato

We guess as we read, we create; everything starts from an initial error; those that follow (and this applies not only to the reading of letters and telegrams, not only to all reading), extraordinary as they may appear to a person who has not begun at...

The Captive & The Fugitive

Note: When reading dry political theory, such as the texts you will find on the following pages, it may be useful to apply the Exclamation Point Test from time to time, to determine if the material you are reading is actually relevant to your life. T...

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners

If I were a box of cereal, I wouldn’t want to talk about myself any more than I do now. Just flip me over and read all about me if you’re curious. Everything you need to know is printed right on my ass.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my ro...

The Fault in Our Stars

He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller in unknown countries and as he pushed forward the...

Of Human Bondage

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect th...

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with this world. No, I am no gypsy, just one who has read a good many books. It is only through reading those great jewels of wisdom that on...

Aizai the Forgotten

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick,...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, ...

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them