Quotes About Retention

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

As an employer, when you keep your employees happy, then the same it will be with your customers.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

I really appreciate that ability to gather signals of demand and signals of retention early on.

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

People have an amazing capacity to remember pictures. After being shown 10,000 photographs just once they can correctly recognize almost all of them a week later. This is in marked contrast to the very poor memory for isolated words.

The next question is: How will you remember what the client tells you? There are many schools of thought:

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Porque todo eso es para decirlo una vez y olvidarlo; o basta con decirlo así para que perdure.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

The very purpose of Clinton's server was to intentionally retain documents and materials - all emails and attachments - on the server in her house, including classified materials.

This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.

Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

que dit le professeur, ils comprennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont écouté, ils retiennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont compris, et ils se servent de la moitié de ce qu'ils ont retenu, c'est-à-dire pas grand-chose, à la fin.

The Link system is used to remember things in sequence only, and there are many things that must be remembered, or learned, in sequence.

Applied to reading material, the idea forces you to read actively, with concentration; applied to lectures, it does the same thing. It's difficult to allow your mind to wander when you're listening for Key Words to remind you of thoughts. The next time you want to remember more of reading or lecture material than you usually do, try applying what you've learned here. You'll be surprised at how much you retain.

Executives trying to recognize high levels of achievement motivation in their people can look for one last piece of evidence: commitment to the organization. When people love their jobs for the work itself, they often feel committed to the organizations that make that work possible. Committed employees are likely to stay with an organization even when they are pursued by headhunters waving money.

It's unwise to say nation-states wanting to retain their national identity in Europe should be dissuaded or stopped from doing so. Nationalism can go wrong, sure - but everything can go wrong.