memorize

In 1887, he created one of the earliest written sales primers for staff to memorize.

He just flipped open his script, tapped it with the flat of his hand, and said, “This? All this memorizing, all this work? That’s the meat and potatoes.”

“Three weeks ago you had a young male with multiple gunshot wounds,” the resident said, as if he’d memorized the words.

When his parents gave him a 10-volume encyclopedia, he read the books so often that he memorized their contents and wore off their covers.

It’s the same thrill I get from a few bedrock recipes, the ones so deeply memorized they become launchpads for improvisation.