Reading And Comprehension Quotes

#1. Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension . he is right . most of the time.

Edwin Boring

#2. But the way she looked at me. Just that crooked bit of smile gave me a surge, and I felt I could do anything.

Ransom Riggs

#3. That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel - a novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

Cris Mazza

#4. I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

Brian Regan

#5. She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Jane Austen

#6. Propaganda is what gives us the freedom to do as we are told.

Markus W. Lunner

#7. Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

Stephen D. Krashen

#8. The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?

Neil Postman

#9. Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

Katie Hopkins

#10. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

Mortimer J. Adler

#11. Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.

It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension.

Peter Rogers

#12. As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.

Sam Wineburg

#13. In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Walter Kirn

#14. Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

Taylor Ellwood

#15. You're better than beautiful." Rahim took a careful breath. "You're interesting. Never forget that.

Renee Ahdieh

#16. He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

Emily Giffin

#17. Don't just read to read. Read to understand.

Jill Telford

#18. I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

J.J. Abrams

#19. I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

John C. McGinley

#20. Sure, society understands visible shackles-- they get the symbolism of the wheelchair, of prosthetics, of a bumper sticker reading disabled veteran, but they still struggle for comprehension of the profound, invisible shackles that an illness such as [Chronic Fatigue] puts on a person's body.

Peggy Munson

#21. Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

Bill Watterson

#22. By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Ben Carson

#23. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim