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“Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.”
― Spencer Johnson, The Present: The Gift That Makes You Happy And Successful At Work And In Life

“You Cannot Change The Past, But You Can Learn From It. When The Same Situation Arises, You Can Do Things Differently And Become Happier And More Effective and Successful Today.”
― Spencer Johnson, The Present: The Gift That Makes You Happy And Successful At Work And In Life

“Be in The Present; Learn from The Past; and Help Create The Future.”
― Spencer Johnson, The Present: The Gift That Makes You Happy And Successful At Work And In Life

“The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!”
― Spencer Johnson, The Present: The Gift That Makes You Happy And Successful At Work And In Life

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry