John Augustus Shedd (1859–1931) was an American author and instructor. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, he developed the Shedd’s Natural Memory Method, a device for using mnemonics as a memory technique. He published Improvement of the Memory (1889) and A Perfect Memory: How to Attain It (1889.)
Shedd released a collection of adages and aphorisms titled Salt from My Attic (1928.) Shedd’s quotes first became popular when the columnist Ed Howe reprinted them in newspapers such as Richmond Times-Dispatch and The San Bernardino County Sun.
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
—John Augustus Shedd
Topics: Innovation, One liners, Originality
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
—John Augustus Shedd
Topics: Opportunity
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
—John Augustus Shedd
Topics: Risk, Risk-taking, Safety