The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully. -Norman Cousins

 

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.


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This quote is just one of 11 total Norman Cousins quotes in our collection. Norman Cousins is known for saying 'The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

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Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions. -Norman Cousins
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The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.

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