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Quotes About Recall

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
~ Mason Cooley
If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.
~ Eugene Gendlin
I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.
~ Deborah Rhode
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
~ Fred Allen
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Do you remember what I forgot?
~ Erica Goros
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
~ James Waddell Alexander, II
Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.
~ Jasmina Tešanovi?
They say you don't directly remember things you see. Instead, you remember a memory of a memory of a memory of a… The
~ Jason Arnopp
People more often need to be reminded than informed.
~ Dr. Samuel Johnson
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky
~ e. e. cummings
love is more than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail from "love is more than forget
~ E.E. Cummings
room after the tragedy, had put out the light. And during the night you heard no sound whatever. Miss Ellerslie? Forgive me for repeating my questions to you, but I am trying to recall any sound which may have reached your ears during your wakeful hours, but which you dismissed from your thoughts as of no significance
~ Edgar Wallace
Norton was supremely gifted as an awakener, and no thoughtful mind can recall without a thrill the notes of the first voice which has called it out of its morning dream.
~ Edith Wharton
When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can and cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think that it is wrong. We should hold the judiciary in all respect, but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of any one else.
~ Edmund Morris
one thing she does not want to come home to is the after-smell of milk gone sour, a lingering smell that disgusts her and reminds her of sensations she daren't recall.
~ Edna O'Brien
Children are apt to forget to remember.
~ ee cummings
So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.
~ Scott Walker
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
~ Gary Wolf
No one can remember more than three points.
~ Phil Crosby
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations.
~ Pete Docter
Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.
~ Hermann Ebbinghaus
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.
~ Clive Thompson