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Quotes About Retention

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.
~ Otto Neurath
Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.
~ Saint Basil
until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Lose your smile and lose your customers.
~ Sam Walton
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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~ Dominic Smith
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
~ Joshua Foer
Because memory cannot be adequately utilized to retain an image, the borderline forgets what the object of his concern looks like, sounds like, feels like. To escape the panicky sensation of abandonment and loneliness, the borderline tries to cling desperately—calling, writing, using any means to maintain contact.
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !
~ Andrew S. Grove
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
~ Anita Brookner
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.
~ Sonali Bendre
We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
~ A. James Clark
I've got a really amazing ability to forget and disregard information that comes in my brain.
~ Garrett McNamara
European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.
~ Chris Grayling
I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
~ Lucy Dacus
I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes.
~ Steve Carell
When the customer comes first, the customer will last
~ Robert Half
We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we're fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away, cleanse the doors of our perception and work out what is worth looking at, what is worth remembering, what are the images that matter, what will we retain.
~ Robert Hughes
The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers
~ Robin S. Sharma
You can remember anything if you try hard enough.
~ Rodman Philbrick
Humans will tend to adopt and retain those elements of culture that appear to produce "better" results, while those that appear to be less rewarding will tend to be discarded.
~ Rodney Stark
he listened closely to what people said and filed away as much information as he could, repeating valuable information to himself until it was memorized.
~ Ron Chernow
You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in. No way at all, you understand? So I don't remember any new stuff because my old bucket is all filled up with old stuff that happened way back. You understand what I'm saying here?
~ Lee Child
I may be an old guy, but the truth is old guys remember stuff real well. Not recent things, you understand, but old things. You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in. No way at all, you understand? So I don't remember any new stuff because my old bucket is all filled up with old stuff that happened way back.
~ Lee Child