Delia Smith Quotes

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

I trust anybody's memory more than I trust mine.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

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

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do.

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

My productivity is overwhelming!

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

The thing is to get the work done.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

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