"Mnemonic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... memorized, and the practicing gives me a kind of photographic reflex of detail. After I have not played a number for a long time it fades from my memory—like an old negative—but I need only go over it once or twice to have a clear mnemonic picture of ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... possession, joy and rapturous content, For I'd practised that expression, and I knew just what she meant: So my eyebrows up I lifted and I stared with all my might And my right-hand nostril shifted somewhat further to the right, But I quite forgot—sad error was this dire mnemonic slip!— I forgot in doubt and terror how to ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... waistcoat pocket contains what the ignorant will esteem scraps of paper. This, however, is the hub and nerve center of my mnemonic system. When I want to remember anything I write it down on a small slip of paper and stick it in that pocket. Before going to bed I clean out the pocket and see how many things I have forgotten during the day. This ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... cultivation. They had a developed metrical system, and were especially fond of the drama. Several specimens of their poetical and dramatic compositions have been preserved, and indicate a correct taste. Although they did not possess a method of writing, they had various mnemonic aids, by which they were enabled to recall their verses ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... arm, and begged to be excused. But the latter would take no denial, and carried out the comedy to the end by giving the merchant the place of honor at his table, and dismissing him with the present of a fine pup of his favorite breed. Perhaps the animal acted as a mnemonic symbol, for Gregor was never ...
— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor
... months. Before that time, if to think is to live be a true axiom, I did not live, I could only lay claim to a state of vegetation. The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. The mnemonic organ was developed in my head only eight years and four months after my birth; it is then that my soul began to be susceptible of receiving impressions. How is it possible for an immaterial substance, which can neither ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
