Books Quote by Peter Kump

“The important thing is not so much to read fast, as to read each book at the speed it deserves. It is as regrettable…

— Jacques Bonnet

The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more…

— Tony Buzan

“..."(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…

— Jacques Bonnet

“Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a “teacher of…

— Anonymous

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

— Emily Oster

“One of the speed reading techniques: Developing the skill of reading and researching by reading under the pressure of time, which means the achieved…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.”

— Robert James

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do…

— Mark Kurlansky

I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).

— Violet Duke

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and…

— Nicholson Baker

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

— Honor Blackman