Speed Reading Quotes

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, War, Book

  "Sorry, But Speed Reading Won't Help You Read More" by Mark Seidenberg, www.wired.com. January 24, 2017.

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Life, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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

  Steven Wright

  Reading, Speed, Bookmarks

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Reading, Speed, Reader

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• 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.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, 2001.

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• 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.

  Tony Buzan

  Powerful, Eye, Brain

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Beautiful, Reading, Mean

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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

  Brian Regan

  Reading, Pages, Speed

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

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Library

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• 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.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Book

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• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Motivational, Travel, Reading

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.105, Routledge

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Reading, Life Is

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Tony Buzan

  Reading, Development, Normal

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

  Charles M. Schulz

  Moving, Reading, Secret

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• 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.

  Steven Wright

  Reading, Machines, Done

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• 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.

  Barbara Johnson

  Teaching, Reading, Reality

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