Nina Tassler Quotes

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Read books. They are good for us.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

I love to read and learn.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I would always read a lot.

Kids who read are bright.

By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

Never trust anybody with only one book.