Quotes About Recall

Here's the thing: I'm ridiculously smart, and I'm pretty sure I have a photographic memory. It's like I have a camera in my head, and if I see or hear something, I click it, and it stays. I saw a special on PBS once on children who were geniuses. These kids could remember complicated strands of numbers and recall words and pictures in correct sequence and quote long passages of poetry. So can I.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Not all of the moments what you encountered in your mind are reminisced, the time will remember us.

Reminisce about the little episodes that we shared together

It's almost as if the harder you try to forget something, the harder your brain tries to remember it. This is why forcing yourself to forget about something that happened to you is impossible. It's also why you can't simply force yourself to get rid of emotions that you don't want.

If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to request that the company issue a recall.

Memories, James thought, thank God we have them. They help us to recall what's long gone, and we can live again in the past with those we once loved.

He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.

Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

For optimal dream recall, do not move from the position in which you awaken. hold completely still, and focus your attention only on what was just going through your mind. Avoid the usual pattern of thinking of the day's concerns immediately upon awakening.

there are three essential requirements for learning lucid dreaming: adequate motivation, correct practice of effective techniques, and excellent dream recall.

the average person remembers only a few dreams per week, and we all have at least half a dozen dreams per night.

Getting plenty of sleep is the first step toward good dream recall.

Possibly, all you will need to do to increase your dream recall is to remind yourself as you are falling asleep that you wish to awaken fully from your dreams and remember them.

It's a trick, of course. That thing the neuro-crowd has been doing to music lately, the trigger buried in the rhythm. It fires up the amygdala, a dash of flight-or-flight to create hyper-salience, hippocampal overactivation for enhanced recall, more Big Brother kind of shit. "Direct-to-memory" is how they describe it. Singing in public was his experience.

the availability heuristic: the easier it is to recall examples of an event, the more probable people think it is.

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

When you remember something, you simplify it, while retaining most of what is important. Thus, your memory can serve as a filter, removing what is useless and preserving and organizing what is vital. [Reconstructing and writing down your argument from memory] is distilling to its essence.

No one can yet tell me why I am able to forget what I wrote in articles and reviews that I once felt passionate about, and yet am able to recall the entire lyrics of Some Enchanted Evening

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

You can remember without seeing it.

They recall a lot of cars. "We gotta get those cars back. We don't recall putting brakes in them."