"I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading."

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Source : "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.

Vaclav Smil

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Past Quotes

“Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.”
“I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.”
“You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.”
“Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.”
“I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.”
“Music alone can take you to the Highest!”
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
“There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.”

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