Quotes About Retention

he had shown me how to do that maybe a dozen times before. But that was the time that it stuck

A study published in the October 22, 2014, issue of the journal Neuron suggests that the brain's chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information. But curiosity is uncomfortable because it involves uncertainty and vulnerability.

Haven't you kept anything? Hyacinth went on, without heeding this challenge. She looked at him a moment. I have kept you!

Anything you cannot communicate without reading will be forgotten instantly.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

While I try to retain the slightly odd perspective and some of the innocence, it's really liberating to be able to talk/rant about all the stuff that bothers me.

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

One of the things that resonated with me is that 'Schoolhouse Rock' started in the 1970s, but there are so many people, regardless of age, who can still recite the jingles and know things about bills and laws because of that show.

Studies have shown that retaining memories can be improved by getting sufficient sleep between the time of activity and a test. Neuroimaging shows that the areas of the brain that are activated during sleep are the same as those involved in learning a new task. Dreaming is perhaps useful in consolidating this new information.

a memória, para poder funcionar bem, precisa de um treino incessante: se as recordações não são evocadas, uma vez mais e outra vez ainda, nas conversas entre amigos, vão-se embora.

The citrus-belt communities are also made up of outsiders, but, not having been periodically inundated by new migrants, they have managed to retain a degree of homogeneity and compactness.

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you." "Sir?" "It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority." "Sir?" "That's practically zen.

Law of Reversed Effect. The harder you try to remember something, the less likely it is you'll be able to recall it.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information . . . Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.

Scholars tell us that redundancy is correlated with retention. To minimize retention, a propagandist says one thing while showing the opposite. When the two differ, what we see tends to override what we hear.

Memory is the capacity to carry forward in time some element of an experience.

He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment.

Protect and preserve your core customers, he [Jim Sinegal, cofounder and CEO of Costco] told our marketing team when I invited him to speak to us. The cost of losing your core customers and trying to get them back during a down economy will be much greater than the cost of investing in them and trying to keep them.

Stealers, keepers.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.