Yet, some business leaders continue to preach the value of reading books, especially literature.
He is unflashy, avoids publicity and admits to reading books about finance to relax.
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Simply reading books or doing exercises, no matter how well crafted, will not get you there.
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He certainly should devote months to reading books on history, foreign policy, science, technology and economics.
You could learn a lot about human nature, it turned out, from reading books.
We are fortunate to have the luxury of reading books from self-made millionaires and entrepreneurs we admire.
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Tell me, once you're done with school, are you then supposed to be done with reading books?
It takes a lot of asking questions and reading books and passing exams.
Reading books is the No. 2 activity by hours consumed, after watching television.
He started reading books on personal development and sales techniques, and also put in a brief stint in telesales.
Reading books keep you up to date in your industry and social trends.
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We learn a foreign language by actually speaking it as much as possible, not by reading books and absorbing theories.
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He told his father that he wanted to use the time for studying and reading books and playing with other kids.
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She admits to having stopped reading books as a result, which I warned her seemed like a bad sign to me.
It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
For example, the iPad offers a beautiful canvas for reading books, but the size and heft discourage the traditional curling-up with a page-turner.
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"I never really had a coach, I just learned by doing and devised my own training program by reading books and watching films, " he says.
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This would enable people to see, for example, who is reading books right now in which parts of the world, or even in their own neighborhood.
As we'd expect, the phone is great for reading books, and it comes with the option to install applications (though it's possible most games wouldn't look that great).
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It's not the old style stereotype of someone who's reading comic books and avoiding sports or not caring about sports, it's someone who's reading comic books while they're watching sports.
For example, cellular data connection is cut when the phone is sleeping and the screen brightness is fixed to 60 percent while reading books, watching videos and listening to music.
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The best way to prevent dementia is to keep the mind active, whether it's by reading books, doing crossword puzzles, playing sudoku, or participating in other creative endeavors, says Kennedy.
Girls in the postwar era had grown up reading books such as Julie with Wings, in which beautiful and spunky young women beat out the massive competition to become flight attendants.
She may well be right if the iPad and other tablet computers take off, the prices of dedicated e-readers such as Amazon's Kindle keep falling and more consumers start reading books on smart-phones.
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However, she is also a young woman who has spent most of her life trapped in a tower, reading books and interacting only with her monstrous guardian, Songbird, and is experiencing Columbia for the first time.
But he had a fierce ambition to succeed in novels: With undiagnosed dyslexia, he'd struggled at school, but reading books on his own terms, despite his difficulties, stimulated his imagination, says longtime friend Jo Swerling Jr.
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