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Maryanne Wolf Quotes

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.

Maryanne Wolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american

Topics

Brain Reading Speak Think Generation

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Andrea Arnold

Experience Ride People Feel You See

If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn't the man I am now.

Sonny Bill Williams

Change Man I Am Name Back Go

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

Rose McIver

Character School Thought You Going

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

Diane von Furstenberg

Mother Beautiful Me Protect Never

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

Delia Smith

Cooking Always Rice Weight Rather

I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

Cherie Lunghi

Father Live Sister Strong Result

It's not possible to win all matches.

Claudio Ranieri

Win Possible Matches

I feel Motown really exploited me.

Brenda Holloway

Me Feel Motown I Feel Exploited

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Bono

Morning Wake Up Better Want Poor

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

Best Yourself Control You Comfort

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beautiful Present Smiling Sin London

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

Perry Chen

Good Myself Doing Entrepreneur