Men Read Newspapers, Not Minds
World Book Day: 85 quotes on the joy of books and reading!
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Quotes World Book Day: A book is a device to ignite the imagination. Morgan A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
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Cumming A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. Martin A room without books is like a body without a soul. A reader finishes it. O'Rourke Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint. Whipple Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Yeats Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. I've got the page numbers done.
Eagan Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. Langford No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. Truman Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Langford The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read. Seuss The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Take the following event borrowed from Nassim Taleb.
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What does the news media focus on? The person in the car. Where he came from. Where he planned to go. How he experienced the crash if he survived. But that is all irrelevant. The structural stability of the bridge.
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That's the underlying risk that has been lurking, and could lurk in other bridges. News leads us to walk around with the completely wrong risk map in our heads. So terrorism is over-rated. Chronic stress is under-rated. The collapse of Lehman Brothers is overrated. Fiscal irresponsibility is under-rated. We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press.
Bankers and economists — who have powerful incentives to compensate for news-borne hazards — have shown that they cannot. Out of the approximately 10, news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that — because you consumed it — allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career or your business. But people find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. The relevant versus the new is the fundamental battle of the current age. Media organisations want you to believe that news offers you some sort of a competitive advantage.
Many fall for that. We get anxious when we're cut off from the flow of news. In reality, news consumption is a competitive disadvantage. The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have. News has no explanatory power. Will accumulating facts help you understand the world? The relationship is inverted. The important stories are non-stories: The more "news factoids" you digest, the less of the big picture you will understand. That's not the case. News is toxic to your body. It constantly triggers the limbic system. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid cortisol.
This deregulates your immune system and inhibits the release of growth hormones. In other words, your body finds itself in a state of chronic stress. News increases cognitive errors. News feeds the mother of all cognitive errors: In the words of Warren Buffett: We become prone to overconfidence, take stupid risks and misjudge opportunities. It also exacerbates another cognitive error: Our brains crave stories that "make sense" — even if they don't correspond to reality.
Any journalist who writes, "The market moved because of X" or "the company went bankrupt because of Y" is an idiot. I am fed up with this cheap way of "explaining" the world. Concentration requires uninterrupted time.
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News pieces are specifically engineered to interrupt you. They are like viruses that steal attention for their own purposes. News makes us shallow thinkers. But it's worse than that. News severely affects memory. There are two types of memory.
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