"Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading."

-- Stephen D. Krashen

#Reading Quotes #Light Quotes #Serious Quotes

“There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.”
“Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.”
“The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.”
“When I see what I want, I do it.”
“Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.184, Ballantine Books
“I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.”
“Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?”
“How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.”

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