Dorothea Dix Quotes

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

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.

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.

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

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

I'm just not a great practice player.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

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.

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.

It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.