Information Absorption Quotes

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

I'm a sponge for information.

The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by.

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before; you explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields, and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you've done it for 20 years.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.