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Tag Name "Retentive" (6)

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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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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
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
Walter Savage Landor
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
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Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
William Shakespeare