Don Mattingly Quotes

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.

I definitely take notes, but I feel like sometimes if I take too many notes, it kind of bogs down my mind a little bit. So, I just write down stuff that I need to remember for the game.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.