Speed Reading Quotes

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper training you can quickly reap the benefits of this enormous potential.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.