Memory Quotes

One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened. Christopher Robin Milne
You Memory Recollection Something Never Sure Real Were Very Just Happened Whether Which Early
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. Claire Danes
Learning Memory Out Scenes Crucial Soon Learned Always Lines Get Flag Committing Just Them Really Figuring Start
I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play. Claire Messud
Memory School Long About Had School Play Lines Span Play
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. Clara Schumann
Me Memory Fear Single Other Threatens Give Fail Days Piece Concert Because Terror Beforehand After Cannot Which Agony Play
I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, 'Forget about it,' that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time. Clarence Clemons
Time Memory Big Our Kick Hung Out About Area Morgan Football Like Lot Baltimore Forget Big Thing Biggest Against Really Used Thing Playing
It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations? Clemantine Wamariya
Me You Memory People Reflection Honor Calm Shoes Those Would Memorials Able Area Uncomfortable Put Make Occurred Tragedy Forgive Situations Want Grand Them Ask Then Create Really Should Who Suffered
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. Clifton Fadiman
Good Memory Good Memory Trivial Trained Forget
Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines. Clive Thompson
Work Best Me You Memory Lie People Judge Strong Digital Sense Tools Minds Weak Particularly Biases Partners How Close Where Your Engines Works Search Search Engines Harder
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory. Clyde Tombaugh
Time Memory World Country Every Could Bound Grade Sixth By The Time
I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children. Colin Trevorrow
Memory Space Collective Think Films Our Supernatural Area Like Venture Sci-Fi Occupy Lot Very Human Children Stories Loved
I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. Conor Oberst
Memory Remember One Thing Able General Songs Terrible Always Been Thing
I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. Craig Venter
Me Memory Thinking Type Everything Visual Conceptual Unusual Whatsoever
Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. Craig Venter
Memory Nothing Others Press Bad About Examples Except Writer Generally Had Self-Indulgent Reveals Condemned Traditional His Autobiography Form Literary Poor Novelist
Memory warps and stretches and shifts to fit the strictures of your life. Crystal Hana Kim
Life Memory Shifts Fit Your
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. Curtis Sittenfeld
Me Memory People Better Think Imagination Books Having Powerful However Than Autobiographical Which Much Who Credit
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. D. H. Lawrence
Truth Memory Vital True Contains Which
I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. Damon Galgut
Service Memory Generation People Young Military Changed Distant Abstract Idea Another How How Much Up Just Apartheid Young People Much Notion Fascinated Growing Military Service Whom Growing Up Now
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Dan Brown
Time Memory Book Television Wrinkle Read Up Did Being While Growing Growing Up Utterly Earliest
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. Dan Chaon
Together Memory Sense Our Ways Kind Fabric Some Construct Self Like Patch Fictions Novel
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. Daniel Kahneman
Memory Our Out Tell Tells Only Get Experiences Stories Story Us Keep Set
If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory. Daniel Levitin
Good Day You Memory Events Properly Get Night Sleep
Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds. Daphne Bavelier
Memory Speeds Despite Studies Puzzle Reaction Brain Effect Improving Often Being Little Social Games Shown
Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read. Darin Strauss
Memory Matters Too Unnatural Detail Memoirs Rarely Percent Only Construct Unreliable Read Private Ballpark Diaries Diary Accurate Any Autobiography Even
Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind. Darryl Pinckney
Memory Black Every Preserved Virtually Those Musicals Kind Scenes Remembered Retrospect Ready Cousins Exists Texts Square Times Times Square Legends Elderly Grandparents Mecca Ever Harlem
My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer. Dave Morris
Home Library Memory First Volume Myths Hammer Heavy Public Public Library
Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you'll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them. David Grinspoon
You Memory Generation Space Will Moon Big Same Thing Think Say Find Vivid My Generation Yeah Scientists Big Event Lot Grade Same Just Literally Them Landing Apollo Captivated Event Thing Earliest Fourth
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