Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

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.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

It takes me a while to figure things out. I usually have to repeat a lesson or two - maybe three times!

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

You're burned into my mind forever

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

And never forget, there is memory.