efficient reading Quotes

Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

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.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?