Working Memory Capacity

Famous quotes containing the words working, memory and/or capacity:

    Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
    Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

    “One thought in agony of strife
    The bravest would have by for friend,
    The memory that he chose the life ...”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even—ultimately, God willing, one day—that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men’s eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.
    Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)