Learning Retention Quotes

#1. It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

Edward Snowden

#2. To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

Jacques Ellul

#3. I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

Sylvia Plath

#4. You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

Davy Crockett

#5. Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile.

William Goldman

#6. Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.

J. August Richards

#7. Mostly you are what they think you are.

Neil Gaiman

#8. On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#9. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Patrick Henry

#10. 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

#11. I've tended to play the outcast. I don't know, more nerdy types.

Tina Majorino

#12. 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

#13. Example is the best precept.

Aesop

#14. Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

Nancy Atherton

#15. While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

Jack Falahee

#16. One would have called it a luminous wound.

Victor Hugo

#17. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9

Peter Ross Range