Quotes About Memorization

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?

Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'

Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.

On the first day from Tarnag, Eragon made an effort to learn the names of Ûndin's guards. They were Ama, Tríhga, Hedin, Ekksvar, Shrrgnien—which Eragon found unpronounceable, though he was told it meant Wolfheart—Dûthmér, and Thorv.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

To ensure accurate memorization, the officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and poetic styles into which various words could be improvised according to the meaning of the message. For a soldier, hearing the message was like learning a new verse to a song that he already knew.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don't understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even my dad.

Knowledge doth come of learning well retained, Unfruitful else

Un libro se puede quemar o perder, pero, cuando uno se lo aprende, el libro ya forma parte de su persona y los conocimientos duran tanto como él.

Holding up my credit card so Gilley could see, I snipped it in half. 'You act like I don't have the numbers, expiration date, and security code memorized,' he mocked.

Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.

Scripture memorization has a number of benefits. We become what we place our minds on.

From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play.

Ik zou het op prijs stellen wanneer u deze namen uit uw hoofd leerde opzeggen, ook in omgekeerde volgorde.

I guess when you're a drama teacher, you're used to memorizing long speeches.