Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It Quotes

“Tupper says: "Memory, the daughter of Attention, is the teeming mother of wisdom.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Endeavor to link by some thought relation each new mental acquisition to an old one. Bind new facts to other facts by relations of similarity, cause and effect, whole and part, or by any logical relation, and we shall find that when an idea occurs to us, a host of related ideas will flow into the mind.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“A man's real possession is his memory; in nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor." Richter has said: "Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven away. Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“All persons ought to practice their visualizing power. This will react upon perception and make it more definite. Visualizing will also form a brain habit of remembering things pictorially, and hence more exactly.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“The essence of genius is to present an old thing in new ways, whether it be some force in nature or some aspect of humanity.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“We remember because we cannot help it but we recollect only through positive effort.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“The great art of memory is attention.... Inattentive people have always bad memories.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Begin to take notice of things about you; the places you visit; the things in the rooms, etc. In this way you will start the habit of "noticing things," which is the first requisite for memory development.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“A character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“If every sensation, thought, or emotion passed entirely from the mind the moment it ceased to be present, then it would be as if it had not been; and it could not be recognized or named should it happen to return. Such an one would not only be without knowledge,—without experience gathered from the past,—but without purpose, aim, or plan regarding the future, for these imply knowledge and require memory.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought.”
― William Walker Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“There is no faculty of the mind which can bring its energy into effect unless the memory be stored with ideas for it to look upon.”
― William Walker Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“A man's real possession is his memory; in nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor." Richter has said: "Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven away. Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death." Lactantius says: "Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”
― William Walker Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“The extent of the memory depends, first, on the daily use we make of it; secondly, upon the attention with which we consider the objects we would impress upon it; and, thirdly, upon the order in which we range our ideas." This then is the list of the three essentials in the cultivation of the memory: (1) Use and exercise; review and practice; (2) Attention and Interest; and (3) Intelligent Association.”
― William Walker Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“truth of the verse of the poet, Pope, who said: "Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“It is true that the success of the individual in his every-day business, profession, trade or other occupation depends very materially upon the possession of a good memory. His value in any walk in life depends to a great extent upon the degree of memory he may have developed. His memory of faces, names, facts, events, circumstances and other things concerning his every-day work is the measure of his ability to accomplish his task. And in the social intercourse of men and women, the possession of a retentive memory, well stocked with available facts, renders its possessor a desirable member of society.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“we remember by chance, but recollect by intention, and if the endeavor be successful that which is reproduced becomes, by the very effort to bring it forth, more firmly intrenched in the mind than ever.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Kay says: "That the memory is capable of indefinite improvement, there can be no manner of doubt; but with regard to the means by which this improvement is to be effected mankind are still greatly in ignorance." Dr. Noah Porter says: "The natural as opposed to the artificial memory depends on the relations of sense and the relations of thought,—the spontaneous memory of the eye and the ear availing itself of the obvious conjunctions of objects which are furnished by space and time, and the rational memory of those higher combinations which the rational faculties superinduce upon those lower. The artificial memory proposes to substitute for the natural and necessary relations under which all objects must present and arrange themselves, an entirely new set of relations that are purely arbitrary and mechanical, which excite little or no other interest than that they are to aid us in remembering.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Remember first, last and always, that before you can remember, or recollect, you must first perceive; and that perception is possible only through attention, and responds in degree to the latter. Therefore, it has truly been said that: "The great Art of Memory is Attention.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“There are three general rules that may be given in this matter of bestowing the voluntary attention in the direction of actually seeing things, instead of merely looking at them. The first is: Make yourself take an interest in the thing. The second: See it as if you were taking note of it in order to repeat its details to a friend—this will force you to "take notice." The third: Give to your subconsciousness a mental command to take note of what you are looking at—say to it; "Here, you take note of this and remember it for me!" This last consists of a peculiar "knack" that can be attained by a little practice—it will "come to you" suddenly after a few trials.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“One of the most common causes of poor attention is to be found in the lack of interest.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“If there has been given great attention, there will be clear and deep impressions; if there has been given but average attention, there will be but average impressions; if there has been given but faint attention, there will be but faint impressions; if there has been given no attention, there will be no records.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Vivid consciousness, long memory; faint consciousness, short memory; no consciousness, no memory....”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Lowell says: "Attention is the stuff that Memory is made of, and Memory is accumulated Genius.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“This then is the list of the three essentials in the cultivation of the memory: (1) Use and exercise; review and practice; (2) Attention and Interest; and (3) Intelligent Association.”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness under the guise of a moral weakness. To have constantly before us an estimate of the things that affect us, true to the reality, is one precious condition for having our will always stimulated with an accurate reference to our happiness. The thoroughly educated man, in this respect, is he that can carry with him at all times the exact estimate of what he has enjoyed or suffered from every object that has ever affected him, and in case of encounter can present to the”
― William W. Atkinson, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“A man's real possession is his memory; in nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Natural associations educate, while artificial ones tend to weaken the powers of the mind, if carried to any great length.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“A character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness under the guise of a moral weakness.”
― Yogi Ramacharaka, Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It