Quotes About Retention

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

What in my life is worth keeping?" The

The reality for leaders of the past and leaders in the future is that in the past very bright people would put up with disrespectful behavior, but in the future they will leave!

MEMORY is an odd thing. I can always remember to perfection a mass of unimportant details.

student Theaetetus to imagine the mind as a block of wax "on which we stamp what we perceive or conceive." Whatever is impressed upon the wax, Socrates said, we remember and know, provided the image remains in the wax, but "whatever is obliterated or cannot be impressed, we forget and do not know."1 A metaphor so suggestive and widespread that we still say that an experience "made an impression.

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty

The employees now things about our business that we don't. We should do a survey and ask them why they think so many people come and go.

Since the beginning of business history, managers have come to realize their competitiveness depends on being able to find, develop and retain top talent

When you get away with something it's yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.

In the lean world," he grinned, "if the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." "And what if I train them and then they leave?" "What if you don't and they stay?" he replied.

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.

The more you can learn and the more knowledge you can retain, the more effective you'll become at what it is you choose to do.

Memories must somehow be represented physically in the brain. Brain chemistry and structure is altered by experience and the stability of these physicochemical changes presumably corresponds to the retention duration of memory.

56 percent of learned information is forgotten within an hour of being encoded. By the time one day has passed, another 10 percent is gone. A month after the information is learned, 80 percent of it has vanished. How

Las cosas aprendidas por gusto se pegan más a la memoria que las aprendidas por obligación.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Consider what the word "augmentation" means. The idea is that you augment something already existing. Many who do it destroy that essential something in the process – become more their additions than themselves. It is part of the haiman ethos to retain that humanity until such a time as it becomes possible to truly extend self. They call themselves haimans but know that until that becomes possible they are not truly post-human.

Stern reported that 51 percent of viewers could not recall a single item of news a few minutes after viewing a news program on television. Wilson found that the average television viewer could retain only 20 percent of the information contained in a fictional televised news story. Katz et al. found that 21 percent of television viewers could not recall any news items within one hour of broadcast.

but if there's one sure way not to forget something it's to say Forget That.

The key to memory consolidation is attentiveness.

Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this: Hot: Cold Others used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this: Hot: C The people who used the cards with the missing letters performed much better in a subsequent test measuring how well they remembered the word pairs. Simply forcing their minds to fill in a blank, to act rather than observe, led to stronger retention of information.

Fully transferring an explicit memory from the hippocampus to the cortex is a gradual process that can take many years.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

REM sleep has also been shown to be particularly important for enhancing our ability to retain emotional memories and for allowing the hippocampus to turn short-term memories of the day before into long-term ones (i.e., it helps make memories more permanent, leading to structural change in the brain).