Dehaene Reading Quotes & Sayings

If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need. — Steve Vai

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me. — Karl Barth

Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that "childhood reading experts" continue their debates about the best strategies for teaching reading to children in complete ignorance of a large and growing body of work on how the human brain processes written language. — Alan Jacobs

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value. — Albert Einstein

A party without cake is just a meeting — Julia Child

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009) — Francisco De Quevedo

That's the thing about mysteries, they shake your entire world. — Aditi Dufare

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people - the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself. — Edith Wharton

(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is not so much to read fast, as to read each book at the speed it deserves. It is as regrettable to spend too much time on some books as it to read others too quickly. There are books you know well, just from flicking through them, others you only grasp at second or third reading, and others again will will last you a lifetime. — Jacques Bonnet

I always wish for the same thing. a boyfriend, someone to love or love me. This year, I think I'm going to wish for something else. The wisdom and the maturity to realise that I won't find what I want by looking for it, not expect someone else to give me what I never gave myself, that I'm not a half, waiting to be made a whole, and even if that special person never comes along, I'll be just fine. — Ted Schmidt

Remind me again, why are you talking to me? I thought we had an understanding. I said I wasn't a petri dish and you agreed. — Erica M. Chapman