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Quotes About Retention

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
~ Unknown
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
~ Aleister Crowley
I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.
~ Ruskin Bond
The CW likes to hold on to its shows.
~ Michael Steger
The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.
~ Donald A. Norman
As a rule, it takes time for information to get into LTM and time and effort to get it out again.
~ Donald A. Norman
What are the design implications? Don't count on much being retained in STM. Computer systems often enhance people's frustration when things go wrong by presenting critical information in a message that then disappears from the display just when the person wishes to make use of the information. So how can people remember the critical information? I am not surprised when people hit, kick, or otherwise attack their computers.
~ Donald A. Norman
The one final thing a sales funnel needs to do is help your customers to memorize your offer.
~ Donald Miller
The brain remembers music and forgets about noise just like the brain remembers some brands and forgets about others.
~ Donald Miller
The very idea of purging source data appalls me. I suppose if I were human, I'd be a pack rat. I'd probably end up as a little old lady who gets crushed to death beneath the weight of her lifetime collection of National Geographics.
~ Donna Andrews
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. 'He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.
~ Unknown
Frank verbuchte diese Information in der Kategorie »Unnötiges Wissen« und versuchte dann, in Ohnmacht zu fallen.
~ J.A. Konrath
What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?
~ Hal Clement
Soon learnt soon forgotten.
~ Anonymous
The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.
~ John Medina
It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
One who easily forgets can be easily forgotten.
~ Unknown
Words pressed themselves into her memory, like a shoe sole into soft mud, which would dry and solidify, the shoe print preserved for
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
~ Confucius
People leave managers, not companies
~ Marcus Buckingham
Even more than the rest, these five questions are most directly influenced by the employee's immediate manager. What does this tell us? It tells us that people leave managers, not companies.
~ Marcus Buckingham
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.
~ Unknown
It often struck Nina that women who seemed capable of only limited mental tasks in most situations could retain information regarding other peoples weight for years, sometimes decades. Unlike genuine idiots savants, they couldn't tell you that December 13, 1972 had fallen on a Wednesday. But they could often tell you, within a pound or two, how much you'd weighed that week.
~ Unknown