Spaced practice is a feasible and cost-effective way to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning, and has tremendous potential to improve educational outcomes.

Perhaps the most important discoveries are those which relate to the appropriate distribution of the periods of study...Acts of revision should be spaced in gradually increasing intervals, roughly intervals of one day, two days, four days, eight days, and so on.

The forgetting curve hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in time. This curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.

From 1880 to 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus ran a study about the memorisation of nonsense syllables, such as "WID" and "ZOF" by repeatedly testing himself after various time periods and recording the results. He plotted these results on a graph creating what is now known as the "forgetting curve".

Murre and Dros present a successful replication of Ebbinghaus’ classic forgetting curve from 1880 based on the method of savings. The forgetting curve has indeed been replicated and that it is not completely smooth but most probably shows a jump upwards starting at the 24 hour data point.

The speed of forgetting depends on a number of factors such as the difficulty of the learned material (e.g. how meaningful it is), its representation and physiological factors such as stress and sleep. Furthermore higher original learning also reduces forgetting. The rate differs little between individuals.

Spitzer tested 1939 the effects of a type of spaced repetition with over 3600 students who were learning science facts and showed that spaced repetition was effective.

Memory formation becomes more effective with longer inter-stimulus intervals between training sessions because of decreasing temporal overlap between successive, short-lived learning traces.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it's a fake one.

Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

I like to eat cheese out of a bowl everyday.

Goaltending is a suffering position. Your equipment protects you from injury but not from pain every time you go out there. And if you allow a goal the red lights go on for everyone to see. But you get to be a hero too

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.

God gave me a great body and its my duty to take care of my physical temple.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Hopefully we can build bridges but we also have to draw lines.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.