A Quote by Harvey Mackay

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay
American - Businessman
Born: 1932

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

Harvey Mackay

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

Adrian Rogers

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Vincent Bugliosi

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Nikola Tesla

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Anita Loos

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Stephen Fry

A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

Saint Francis de Sales

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

Jane Austen

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

Max Walker

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

John Ray

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

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