Quotes About Active Reading

#1. Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.

Ruth Reichl

#3. James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

Joe Morton

#4. Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

Roxane Gay

#5. Work for what you want, pray for what you need and fight for what you've always dreamt about.

M. G. Dahlman

#6. Reading is a way of closing out the real world and losing yourself in a new one. This is also called "active meditation" - a state of mind that you attempt to reach to rid yourself of tension and make yourself feel better.

Henry Mckinnon

#7. To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

Alison Pill

#8. You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.

Tony Evans

#9. People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

Michele Bachmann

#10. That night I dreamed of turduckens.

S.A. Bodeen

#11. Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

Yannick Murphy

#13. I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space - we have invested so much, and we have a lot to gain - that America could and should be the nation that should lead the settlement of Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

#14. Max never intended to be messy with his writing, which he could read just fine, years later if necessary, even if his teachers couldn't. He merely found that his active mind tended to move too fast for his hand to keep up with.

Sol Luckman

#15. The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

John Stott

#16. When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

George Carlin

#17. Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

Khaled Hosseini

#18. But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

Stephen Spender

#19. Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Richard M. Nixon

#20. Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

Rachel Miner

#21. Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

Jonathan Lethem

#22. I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity.

Suzi Quatro