Mnemonic Devices Quotes

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

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.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

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 have a photographic memory.

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

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

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

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.