The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.

WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.