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Quotes About Recall

Right after you've talked to someone at a party, take out your pen. On the back of his or her business card write notes to remind you of the conversation: his favourite restaurant, sport, movie, or drink; whom she admires, where she grew up, a high school honour; or maybe a joke he told. In your next communication, toss off a reference to the favourite restaurant, sport, movie, drink, hometown, high school honour.
~ Leil Lowndes
Es un tipo de memoria muy pobre la que solo funciona hacia atrás
~ Lewis Carroll
Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.
~ Lindsey Davis
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
~ Albert Einstein
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings <...> This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.
~ Alberto Manguel
violent content in the film clips actually impaired participants' memories of the products
~ Douglas A. Gentile
We test students right after they read something mostly to ensure that they have in fact read it. From this, many have drawn the erroneous conclusion that the only good that can be extracted from their reading is that which can be displayed on or measured by a test. This is wildly inaccurate. Most of the good your reading and education has done for you is not something you can recall at all.
~ Douglas Wilson
When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.
~ Fred Durst
Create cheat sheets to help new info stick in your brain better.
~ Jill Konrath
When you're deep in study mode, stop every thirty minutes to review what you've just learned. Repeat the information you just covered out loud to yourself. This helps cement it in your brain even more when you want to recall it.
~ Jill Konrath
Chunking strategies minimize mental chaos and increase recall.
~ Jill Konrath
Pretend that you are the Voice of the People. Whitaker and Baxter bought radio ads, sponsored by "the Citizens Committee Against the Recall," in which an ominous voice said: "The real issue is whether the City Hall is to be turned over, lock, stock, and barrel, to an unholy alliance fronting for a faceless man." (The recall was defeated.) Attack, attack, attack. Said Whitaker: "You can't wage a defensive campaign and win!" Never underestimate
~ Jill Lepore
We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.
~ Joan Oliver Goldsmith
Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.
~ Ann Howard Creel
I will quietly in the churchyard Sleep on wooden boards in the sun, On the Sunday as guest to mother You will come, my dear one -- Through the river over the mountain Can't catch up to grown ones From afar, the sharp-eyed fellow, This my cross you'll recognize. I know, dear one, very little Can you now recall of me: Did not scold you, did not fawn you, Did not hold the cup to thee.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Meg nodded. She didn't understand the feeling, but she turned the words into a kind of image that she could recall later. "Anyway
~ Anne Bishop
Je rebrousse chemin, un détour assez long pour reprendre le chemin correct (mais j'étais capable de me rappeler où commençait l'erreur de route). Le bon chemin est surplombé par la voie ferrée.
~ Annie Ernaux
The difference such minimal instruction made in participants' ability to recall information, they noted, was "striking": students who incorporated movement into their learning strategy remembered 76 percent of the material, while those who engaged in "deliberate memorization" recalled only 37 percent.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
Concluded Helga and Tony Noice in one of their academic articles, "One might paraphrase Descartes and say, 'I move, therefore I remember.'
~ Annie Murphy Paul
was recalling her
~ Fern Michaels
For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?
~ Tony Buzan
Short term memory is not good.
~ Jim McMahon
I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.
~ Lee Mack
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.
~ Hermann Ebbinghaus