Quotes About Recall

Memory My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour—'T was noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May—The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then, pausing here, set down its load Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly Two petals from that wild-rose tree.

The sad engineer would never go back to England; he would become one of these elderly expatriates who hide out in remote countries, with odd sympathies, a weakness for the local religion, an unreasonable anger, and the kind of total recall that drives curious strangers away.

every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

The Zeigarnik Effect, as it has come to be known today, states simply that the brain naturally remembers and holds on to anything that is interrupted or incomplete. These interruptions and incompletions are called open loops.

She did ask for the name. And I gave it to her. Okay, now I remember. After

Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.

A memory for details, Elena knows, is only for the brave, and being cowardly or brave is not something one can choose.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I should have been more careful To remember everything I could go on, except I can't

Yolun gitti?i yeri unutan? hat?rla.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after.

That's one of Patrick's favorite theories. He read somewhere that people remember stuff better if they read or think about it right before they fall asleep.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

A short pencil is better than a long memory.

library! Oh, I forgot. Same thing.

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.