One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

A town without a book shop was a town without a heart

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Just because he's good at something, doesn't necessarily mean he likes doing it.->> Azuma-sensei, (Kimi to Boku, #1)

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.

People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.