Quotes For Students About Reading

#1. Sooner or later you have to decide what you believe. It was a thing I'd always known but until recently had forgotten: that faith is a decision. In its most basic form, it is a choice. - Author: Jennifer Haigh

#2. I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny. - Author: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#3. Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening. - Author: Steven Anderson

#4. I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs. - Author: Kelly Gallagher

#5. Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. - Author: J. Tuzo Wilson

#6. It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000. - Author: Casey Kasem

#7. Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. - Author: Don DeLillo

#8. Jesus, as a philosopher is wonderful. There's no greater role model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. It's just a shame that most of the people who follow him and call themselves Christians act nothing like him. - Author: Bill Maher

#9. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. - Author: Nancy Atwell

#10. I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months. - Author: Wallace Shawn

#11. Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category. - Author: Jeff VanderMeer

#12. The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear - Author: Thom Yorke

#13. Your child with dyslexia is twice as likely as other children to have ADD; about 15 percent of students with reading problems are also diagnosed with ADD. Conversely, a child with ADD is twice as likely to have difficulties with reading; about 36 percent of children with ADD also have dyslexia. It - Author: Jody Swarbrick

#14. Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It's about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and a master planner. - Author: Stefanie Weisman

#15. Mind the dead man, my dear. - Author: Rachel Caine

#16. And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. - Author: Grant Morrison

#17. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#18. And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. - Author: Barack Obama

#19. Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics. - Author: Donalyn Miller