prioritizing reading Quotes

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

If you're wondering how you'll find time, it means you don't really want to read. Because nobody's ever got time. Children certainly haven't, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

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.