Quotes About Recall

I don't have a good memory, so learning all the songs for my TV performances was a real challenge.

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.

You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me - or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind--the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.

...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

Because your memory is limited and filtered, you will be inclined to remember those data that subsequently match the facts

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

I do, however, happen to possess a pretty good memory and can at a moments notice name the lineup of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and all but one or two of my ex-wives.

Sitting on the train to Atlanta, Frank suddenly realized that those memories, powerful as they were, did not crush him anymore or throw him into paralyzing despair. He could recall every detail, every sorrow, without needing alcohol to steady him. Was this the fruit of sobriety?

If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.

All she could recall later, in the solicitous light of dawn, was that she had touched a nightmare, and that the nightmare had somehow reached out to touch her in return.

To memorize something, it's best to write it down.

Using pictures to tell stories is a technique well established in the neuroscience literature in a concept called picture superiority. Researchers have found that if you simply hear information, you will recall about 10 percent of the content. If you hear the information and see a picture, it's likely that you will retain 65 percent of the content.

Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.

Over the years I've come to think of memories as tiny living things, microorganisms that swim through the brain until they've found the right compartment in which to settle down and rest. If the compartment isn't available, if there's no proper label for the memory, it takes up residence somewhere else, gets lodged in a corner and gnaws at you periodically, cropping up at odd times, or in dreams.

And my weight, as everyone at Lucasland can recall, was, and remains, of the "any kind" variety.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

Bring on your storm, my lord-and recall, if you do, the name of this castle"-Ser Courtnay Penrose at Storm's End.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.