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Quotes About Retention

The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.
~ John Medina
Emotionally arousing events tend to be better remembered than neutral events. While
~ John Medina
The messages that do grab your attention are connected to memory, interest, and awareness.
~ John Medina
People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days. And the majority of this forgetting occurs within the first few hours after class.
~ John Medina
La diferencia puede atraer, pero lo que retiene es la semejanza; y los individuos pueden darse recíprocamente felicidad según sean más o menos semejantes entre sí.
~ John Stuart Mill
Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.
~ John Sutherland
Though he remembered the authors and their works and their dates and
~ John Williams
Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.
~ Ellen Potter
Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.
~ Emil Cioran
I just have pretty good recall of information.
~ Carson Wentz
I'm always freaking people out because I'll be out somewhere and I'll hear someone say something and then later on I'll say it again word for word. It's almost like recording it in your head.
~ Peter Kay
If we want to recruit and keep the best educators, we need to pay them better.
~ Roy Cooper
I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.
~ Seamus Heaney
I don't care where I'm at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That's about it.
~ Derrick Lewis
If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.
~ Mick Cornett
For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be forever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
~ George Orwell
I do know them each by heart because
~ George S. Clason
She could forget a face, an appointment or a good resolution but her memory for dogs was always phenomenal.
~ Gerald Hammond
We need greater access to housing in this state to help grow New Hampshire's workforce and retain and attract millennials.
~ Chris Sununu
I have a really bad memory, to be honest.
~ Tierra Whack
The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
~ John C. Maxwell
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Say something enough times and you never forget it.
~ Markus Zusak
It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle