Quotes About Retention

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

In the Ebbinghaus curve, or forgetting curve, R stands for memory retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time. The power of a memory can be built through repetition, but it is the memory we are recalling when we speak, not the event. And stories are annealed in the telling, edited by turns each time they are recalled...People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.

To attract and retain the very best, we also paid the best people what they would command at other companies for a bigger job. Why wait until someone else tried to steal them away before paying them what the market said they were worth?

the only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

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.

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

Hoarding remained a synonym beloved of bureaucrats for retaining your own assets.

There's no question that resting meat helps it to retain juices, though the exact degree to which it does so is up for debate. I've tested dozens of steaks over the years, and I've found significant variation.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Our partnership with Quebec plays an important role in our work to grow Vermont's economy, retain and attract businesses to Vermont, and help workers and businesses thrive.

You remember everything people say to you?' I locked into his eyes. 'Everything /some/ people say to me.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

People join companies. They leave managers.

In retaining employees and keeping them engaged, we'll cover the five activities of great (vs. good) managers: • Help people play to their strengths. • Don't demotivate; dehassle. • Set clear expectations and give employees a clear line of sight. • Give recognition and show appreciation. • Hire fewer people, but pay them more (frontline employees, not top leaders!).