Long-Term Retention Quotes

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.