#book

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ↗

— Anatole France

#contain #dull #extremely #history #history books

The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#benefit #book #evangelical #experienced #expressing

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. ↗

— Uri Geller

#anything #around #books #governments #i

Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you read asks you to move outside of yourself and your own experience to consider the lives of others. So I can't identify a particular book that altered my life, but I do know that the act of reading has pushed me to engage more deeply with the world (real and imagined), and I'm grateful for that. ↗

— Ethan Rutherford

#shelf-awareness #change

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#actual #big #booking #connection #dream

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#facebook #first #history #jobs #know

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#also #books #cartoons #got #i

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

#author #book #characters #escape #itself

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #future #i #itching #lot

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars. ↗

— David Guterson

#after #book #case #certainly #comes