685 Memory Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history. Marcel Duchamp

Life History Memory Important Moreover How Times Curious Explains Note Fantasy Fortunate Even Fragile

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas. Marianne Williamson

Memory Organization Important Institutional Ideas Fresh Fresh Ideas Any

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art. Marina Abramovic

Buy Art You Memory Difficult Immaterial Collect Stays Something Performance How Very Just Happened Moment

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart. Marina Oswald

Heart Memory Cat Like Scratching

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory. Marjorie Holmes

Man Memory Emotions Entangled Only His Creature Whose

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. Mark E. Smith

Learning Memory Three About Read Muffin Mule Earliest

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young. Mark Helprin

Me Memory Father Backwards Made Young Down Every Saw Way Photographic Somehow Purpose Schedule He Document Him Read His Germany Trained Wall Commit Being Famous Upside Upside Down Captured

All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience. Mark Waid

Love Memory Experience Book Reading Skin Tree Other Paper Tactile Part Comic Comic Book Comics Hand Up Sitting Sensation Grew Forth Sandwich Us Who Apple Butter Peanut Peanut Butter

We do some experiments in humans, some in mice, and there are some questions that can only be answered in nonhuman primates. It's true that you can't immediately say that those experiments will translate into human health, but nevertheless, it is obvious that having an understanding of human memory is going to be important for human health. Mark Walport

Health You Memory Will Important Understanding Say Immediately Those Some Having Only True Nevertheless Obvious Answered Questions Mice Going Human Experiments Translate Human Health Humans

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.' Martha Beck

Memory Events Losing Out Stroke Scars Emotional Had True Baggage Leave Years Taylor Turns Painful Who Event Largely Her

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Farquhar Tupper

Wisdom Memory Volumes Without Idiots Repeat Rote

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and sub-nuclear world. Physicists then had greater clout than other scientists because the memory of their role in the Second World War was fresh in people's minds. Martin Rees

War Together Memory People World Research Other Minds Physicists Pursue Had Wished Geneva Greater Because Fresh Scientists Up Laboratory Than Role Clout Then Who European Nuclear Second Bring World War Set Second World War

My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place! Martina Navratilova

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. Mary McAleese

Memory Country Vibrant Humbling

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one? Matt Besser

Life You Memory Remember Important Think Everything Telling About Ultimately Just Story Certain Certain Things Why Things

It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day. Matthew Walker

My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just attending a go kart race. Max Verstappen

Memory First Think Attending Go Motor Just Race Racing

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.' Meghan Daum

Memory Political College Back Distinct Everywhere Correctness About Dating Term New Talking Around Mates Political Correctness Up Sitting Dorm Popping

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. Mel Torme

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning. Michael Chabon

Time Grief Memory Speak Remember Father First Tossed Blanket Cheering Read First Time His Up Mourning Being Subtle Description Tearing

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes. Michael Chabon

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. Michael Leunig

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We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? Michael Leunig

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