Paul Prudhomme Quotes

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

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

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.

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.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

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

Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

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

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.