Don’t try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
– Mortimer J Adler
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- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J Adler
- True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. – Mortimer J Adler
- Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J Adler
- Books are absent teachers. – Mortimer J Adler
- The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him. – Mortimer J Adler
- The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. – Mortimer J Adler
- From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. – Mortimer J Adler
- The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used. – Mortimer J Adler
- What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. – Mortimer J Adler
- Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it. – Mortimer J Adler
- We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. – Peter M Senge
- The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness. – Nikki Rowe
- Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. – Bryant McGill
- God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- Life is a dream. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another. – Aditya Ajmera
- We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. – Roy Amara
- But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – Hazel Grace Lancaster – John Green
- Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health. – Christopher Earle
- Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause. – Suzy Kassem
- depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – John Green
- Every problem has an effect -“ every deserved curse has a consequence or result, an outcome or effect. – Ikechukwu Joseph
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Visualization is a process when we try to see the imaginative creation as a real future manifestation. – Debasish Mridha MD
- It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. – Pamela Dean
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! – William Faulkner
- There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
- Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
- Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. – Ian Mortimer
- Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel…A Very English Affair) – Faith Mortimer
- What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try? – Gina Greenlee
- Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person’s ministry. – Beth Moore