Jack Canfield Quotes

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

The man who never reads lives only one.

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.