Memory Quotes

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory. Josh Hartnett
Memory Think Always Spur Very Trying Create Moment Fun Fun Things Things
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity. Joshua Foer
Great Memory Creativity Mind Fly Other Unlike Distinguishes Ability Lavish Feat Scene Argue Learned Quickly Than Any Forgotten Cannot Create Skills Less Paint Many Images Competitive
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. Joshua Foer
Today Time Memory Alien Once Would Seem Having Idea Disciplined Cultivated Trained Us Nearly
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember. Joshua Foer
Journey You Memory Remember Space Mind Whatever Eye Trick Known Method Up Familiar Want Then Conjure Palace Images
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen. Joshua Foer
Memory Seconds One Minute Memorizing Record Minute Since New Device Fallen Einstein Deck Used Cards Championship Playing Set
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. Joshua Foer
Time You Memory World Three Master Rank Must Memorize Able Minutes Superhuman Seemingly Feats Attain Perform Hour Masters Than Same Precise Order Grand Deck Less Amount Cards Playing Two
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away. Joshua Foer
Memory Confused Mind Before Few Eye Bizarre Photographic Rarely Minutes Vivid Percent Perceptual Adult Fading Between Another Real Occurs Lingers Up Very Often Essentially Children In-Between Which Away Image Phenomenon
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Joshua Foer
Memory Culture World Humor Depend Our Find Ability Share Between New Ideas Make New Ideas Human Essentially Common Create Notions Connections Acts
Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory. Joshua Oppenheimer
Memory Dream Above Waking Impressions Fever Any
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. Joshua Reynolds
Memory Invention Nothing Strictly Strictly Speaking Those More Combination New Come Been Than Which Little Speaking Images Gathered
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. Joyce Carol Oates
Memory Language Without Blood Linked
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind. Judith Jamison
Me Heart Memory People Remember Mind Other Dancer Indelible Though High Inside Something Touched Remember Me Because How Up Very Did Any Legs Them Many Even
I always preach you have to have a short memory, whether it is good or bad. Julian Edelman
Good You Memory Preach Bad Always Short Short Memory Whether
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family. Junot Diaz
Family You Memory Monster Addressing Neighbours Gives Blank Put Feel Like Narrative Cheque Go Hold Anything Against Migration Your
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression. Justin Cartwright
Memory Simple Three Few Older Settled Valley Some Houses Repression Place Notable Victorian Fleeing Streets Early Recent Two
My favorite memory of Kevin Garnett is not a memory - it's more of the experience I had with him for a year, just enjoying that moment of being his teammate, conversing with him every single day, learning from him every single day. Karl-Anthony Towns
Day Learning Memory Experience Single Year Every Favorite More Had Him Single Day His Just Being Moment Teammate Enjoying Every Single Day Kevin
When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction. So for me, it's the same thing. Karl Ove Knausgard
Me Memory Remember Same Thing About Something Write Talking End Same Fiction In The End Thing
I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this. Kate Christensen
Alone Food Memory Language Think Part Powerful Brain Where Really Intersect
I don't know what my mother was thinking, but she entered me in a Little Miss contest - Little Miss Orange Blossom, I think it was. And I don't remember anything about that, except I have one flash-bulb memory of standing on the stage and thinking, 'This is not where I should be.' Kate DiCamillo
Me Memory Remember Mother Stage Think Thinking Entered About Except Miss Know She Contest Blossom Orange Where Anything Little Should Standing
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam. Katrina Kaif
Memory Language Telugu Minutes Impeccable Learn Any Including
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. Kazuo Ishiguro
You Memory Fluid Fall Fragment Mimicking Took Way Solid Scene Fact Write Writer Like Another Years Just Place Apart Then Works Actually
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory. Kazuo Ishiguro
Me Memory Writing Result Through Haze Part Like Texture Quite Central Episodes Actual
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be. Ken Kesey
Memory Too Dead Concerts Smokin Been Where Holes Used Many
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned. Kenneth Scott Latourette
History Memory Christianity Has-Been Something Recorded Know Passed Spread Tradition Been Repeatedly Questioned Accuracy The History Of Much Transmitted Whose
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me. Kevin Durant
Me Memory Every Prom Had Stuff Like Involving Always Go Up Growing Growing Up Basketball
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything? Kevin J. Anderson
You Memory Remember Everything Plug Could Head Like Look Augmented Up Chip Your
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