Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

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.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

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.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for so much.

I'm telling you, studying for week to week in the NFL, and memorization, and reflexive recall... you have to drive it into your brain so far.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

The mind is just another muscle.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

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.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

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

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

The mind is a muscle.