Quotes About Recall

Worse still, programs like these may lead employers to optimize for misleading metrics, like maximizing for "likes" or "shares" or high "net promoter scores," which are easy to earn when programs are fun and fluent but not when they're demanding. Instead of designing for recall or behavior change, we risk designing for popularity.

The reason why it is difficult to tell it is because I remember too much.

Anything you cannot communicate without reading will be forgotten instantly.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

He said brains are needed to recall memories, but it appears brains are not where memories are stored.

Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.

While most of what you think of as memory involves retrieving information from the past, prospective memory, or memory for intentions, refers to our ability to remember our intention to carry out some specific action at a future time or circumstance.

we do this by forming a mental connection between what we want to remember to do and the future circumstances in which we intend to do it.

MNEMONIC INDUCTION OF LUCID DREAMS EXERCISE 1   Set up dream recall. At bedtime, set your mind to awaken from and to remember dreams. When you awaken from a dream, recall it as completely as you can. 2   Focus your intent. While returning to sleep, concentrate single-mindedly on your intention to remember to recognize that you are dreaming. Tell yourself, "next time I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming," repeatedly, like a mantra.

try to let your first thought upon awakening be, "What was I just dreaming?" Before attempting to write down the dream, go over the dream in your mind, retelling the dream story to yourself until you remember it as a whole.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.

I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.

The option to recall elected officials is an important one. Our representatives should always be mindful that they answer to their constituents, and if they act in malfeasance, their job may be on the line. But using the recall as a way to reverse the results of an election, or to hold a snap election, is simply undemocratic.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.