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Simon Sarris: A benefit of prioritizing creation and then sharing it is that you might inspire others along with yourself. And if you are creating while learning in public, you may find others who come along and help you.
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Nick Cave: Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts – be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed
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Study: participants had to learn to identify the letters of a language they did not know. The learning was prompted in one of three ways: writing by hand, typing, or watching videos. "At the end, after as many as six sessions, everyone could recognize the letters and made few
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, October 1842: Thou shalt read Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Proclus, Jamblichus, Porphyry, Aristotle, Virgil, Plutarch, Apuleius, Chaucer, Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Bacon, Marvell, More, Milton, Molière, Swedenborg, Goethe. via Laudator Temporis Acti.
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When my friend Xavier took an interest in my master's thesis --that was a few years ago ;)-- he started suggesting books and journal articles that he thought might be useful to my research. Soon thereafter I started doing the same whenever I bumped into something I thought might
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The first step is to become a slow reader. No good writer is a fast reader, at least not of work with the standing of literature. Writers perforce read differently from everyone else. Most people ask three questions of what they read: (1) What is being said? (2) Does it
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Je lis chez Desbiens (Ainsi donc): L'abondance des notes, en effet, et la dimension de la bibliographie ne m'impressionnent plus. (...) En outre, je suis gouverné depuis longtemps par l'idée qu'il faut résoudre en soi et pour soi les plus grandes questions. Cette
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How much can I push myself? How much rest is appropriate—and how much is too much? How far can I take something and still keep it decent and consistent? When does it become narrow-minded and inflexible? How much should I be aware of the world outside, and how
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Q: What is the best training for writing? Courses in writing? Or what? William Faulkner: Read, read, read! Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad; see how they do it. When a carpenter learns his trade, he does so by observing. Read! You'll absorb it. Write. If it
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Mucho se equivocan (...) quienes afirman que una tableta electrónica borrará el libro de papel de las necesidades humanas. Porque un libro no sirve sólo para leer. Sirve también para que su peso tranquilice las manos lectoras, para subrayar y ajar sus páginas con el uso, para regalar el ejemplar leído
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As long as we keep rereading we never have the ultimate version of a book. Whether we go back again and again to a classic (and the ability to hold up to rereading is how a book becomes a classic) or pick up an old favorite to see how it
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Esto no es gratuito o casi tautológico. Estamos rodeados de textos que producen lecturas de poca significación personal, textos poco relevantes para el crecimiento del hombre o la mujer. Buscamos sentido para vivir, porque si no, la vida se hace insoportable. Una lectura significativa puede alumbrar un problema, despejar una