Memory Quotes - Page 19

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of it? Will I forget what she looked like? What it looked like when the sun reflected on her hair? The way her pillow always smelled like her? Will my memory of her run out too?

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

The table next to the sink is for flashcards. I saw a Monty Python skit called, "every sperm is sacred," and it gave me the idea that, "every piss is sacred." Meaning, WHY NOT LOOK AT FLASHCARDS WHILE VOIDING?

(From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford).
Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend.

You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too

You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student.

I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE.

(About the magic bathroom).
If knowledge is money, and money is gold, then this is modern day Alchemy.
Feces (wasted time) is turned into gold (knowledge).

Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, "I think it only fitting to write while shitting." This gave me the idea of, "I think it only fitting to read while ..." Who says men can't multitask?

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee.

Train your brain to gain.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.

Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Kuwa makini na kila kitu unachofanya kwa maana ubongo ni kitu cha ajabu, ubongo una uwezo wa kukupotosha.

Tambua vitu vya muhimu katika maisha yako ijapokuwa unaweza kuacha alama katika dunia bila kujitambua baada ya kuondoka.

Sikujui. Lakini naamini hungependa kuishi maisha yako hapa duniani bila kuacha urithi au kumbukumbu ya aina yoyote katika jamii.

Shindana na wenzako kuwa juu zaidi katika tasnia uliyojichagulia.