Quotes About Retention

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior.

Employees stay twice as long, sick days have dropped, and morale is higher.

Finders keepers is what they say, and I wanted to be kept.

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone.

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever.

The art of remembering is the art of thinking and by adding, with Dr.Pick, that, when we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

a man who possesses the art of correct reading will… instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing… The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.*… Only this kind of reading has meaning and purpose…

Your brain hosts a truly staggering number of loops. The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

Familiarity and memorability are often at odds.

Rounding early means sharper recall in the end.

This is an economic issue as well as an emotional one: In a survey of 10,000 employees from the 1,000 largest companies, 40% of workers cited "lack of recognition" as a key reason for leaving a job. This

In a survey of 10,000 employees from the 1,000 largest companies, 40% of workers cited "lack of recognition" as a key reason for leaving a job.

There's nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.

Study after study shows that employees leave organizations primarily because of poor relationships with managers, not because of pay, benefits, or other factors. How well you train, coach, empower, and support your people—and whether you show appreciation for the hard work they do each day in the trenches serving customers—makes all the difference not only in retaining your best employees, but also in creating memorable experiences for customers.

The practice of connecting the tongue to the palate and the practice of holding the breath before inhalation will recharge the body. These simple techniques will energize and rapidly recharge their body. Empty retention must become part of their breathing pattern.

If an organization wants innovation to flourish, the conversation needs to change from severance packages to retention bonuses.

The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.