Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It

“Tupper says: "Memory, the daughter of Attention, is the teeming mother of wisdom.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“Endeavor to link by some thought relation each new mental acquisition to an old one. Bind new facts to other facts by relations of similarity, cause and effect, whole and part, or by any logical relation, and we shall find that when an idea occurs to us, a host of related ideas will flow into the mind.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“A man's real possession is his memory; in nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor." Richter has said: "Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven away. Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“All persons ought to practice their visualizing power. This will react upon perception and make it more definite. Visualizing will also form a brain habit of remembering things pictorially, and hence more exactly.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“The essence of genius is to present an old thing in new ways, whether it be some force in nature or some aspect of humanity.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“We remember because we cannot help it but we recollect only through positive effort.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“The great art of memory is attention.... Inattentive people have always bad memories.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“Begin to take notice of things about you; the places you visit; the things in the rooms, etc. In this way you will start the habit of "noticing things," which is the first requisite for memory development.””

— William Walker Atkinson

“A character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness””

— William Walker Atkinson