• Read carefully to understand the scriptures.
• Study every day.
• Study in a place where you can concentrate without distractions or interruptions.
• Study for a period of time rather than reading a certain amount of chapters or pages: 60 minutes is ideal, 30 minutes is a great accomplishment, yet 15 minutes can be meaningful also.
• Have a study plan.

Elder Howard W. Hunter - then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Ensign Nov 1979, pp. 64-65.