Quotes About Recall

Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.

Your intellect will not remember unless you can refresh it with notes.

Any significant input that is received in your brain triggers neural activity that cannot simply be erased or deleted as though it never happened.

Rather than recall in these flowers the fragrance of the past, I would like to hear this nightingale's voice, to know if his song is as sweet.

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

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 Zeigarnik effect, our tendency to remember unfinished tasks better than finished ones.2

Understanding how the brain's attentional and memory systems interact can go a long way toward minimizing memory lapses.

not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

She lay still and tried to fish the name out of the water of memory that flooded her mind, but it was no use.

You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I always believe that if you're looking at a magazine and I'm one of 40 ads, I - in effect - get one-fortieth of your attention. But if, when you close that magazine, you're still thinking about my ad, I've got a lot more than one-fortieth of your attention.

The cat, I remember.

We have to change truth a little in order to remember it.

The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.

As a rule, it takes time for information to get into LTM and time and effort to get it out again.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

The soul can recall what the mind forgets.