Rudolf Flesch famous quotes

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Change #Mean #Learning

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Memories #Ideas #Two

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Writing #Kicking #Verbs

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Trying

You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Reading #Home #Vocabulary

Say what you have to say, and then stop.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Public Speaking #Fear Of Public Speaking #Speaking In Public

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
-- Rudolf Flesch

#Reading #Errors #People

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.