Mental Retention Quotes

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

names are a way to keep people in your mind

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

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

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.