Memory Retention Quotes

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

For the weaknesses I have with spelling and all those other things with being dyslexic, I have a lot of other strengths also.

I've never kept a record of anything.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobody shows up. The weirdest of the weird are what you retain.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.