Jennifer Hyman Quotes

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in different colored pens. I have a more multi sensory memory - I remember what I was doing when I learnt it and where I was.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.