Quotes About Memorization

Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.

The great thing with comedy is that I don't memorize ahead of time like I did on 'Breaking Bad.' With 'Breaking Bad,' I wanted to know those words inside and out, really have my lines down so I could say them verbatim. But with comedy, you keep it a lot more loose.

I memorize stuff that I know works, and then 25 percent is just feeding off the audience and going where they want to go. Sometimes things flop. That's where the jokes come in.

I used to lock myself in my room and memorize scenes from films and reenact them when I was alone.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

I would sing every chance I got - in the car, before bed - I even remember memorizing my address to songs.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

The study of medicine consists on the one hand in storing up in the mind an enormous number of facts, which are simply memorized without any real knowledge of their foundations, and on the other hand in learning practical skills, which have to be acquired on the principle "Don't think, act!" Thus it is that, of all the professionals, the medical man has the least opportunity of developing the function of thinking .