Learning Retention Quotes & Sayings

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. — Nicholas Carr

A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

You don't share me. You own me. — Gayle Forman

If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them. — Michael Gove

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year ... the alienation from the sources of our strength. — Rachel Carson

Korsakoff's syndrome, — Nancy Kress

People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation - they're — Gillian Flynn

You become what you give your attention to. — Epictetus

I have to figure out who I am before I can accept that I'm someone who deserves someone like you. — Cassandra Clare

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper. — Barry Gibb