Honor Blackman Quotes

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm a slow reader.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

Even to this day, I read things in real time, you know, I don't - like, as if it's being spoken. I can't skim stuff in ways that I know certain people can. I have to sort of hear it in my head to be able to read it.

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

It takes me a while to figure things out. I usually have to repeat a lesson or two - maybe three times!

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

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.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Memory demands an image.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.