Quotes About Recall

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports.

According to research at Northwestern University (Donna Bridge, Feinberg School of Medicine), your memory of an event is not actually a memory of the event, but a recall (memory) of the last recall (memory) of the event. The more recalls, the more the memory changes, like Chinese whispers. So, you can be holding on to events that have changed over time and become even further from the past reality. And that's kind of nuts.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

A woman forgives but never forgets, A man forgets but never forgives

the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

They are association, location, and imagination.

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything.

Regret is the most useless thing in the world. One cannot recall anything. And one cannot rectify anything. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum." Joan

Habit is the explanation of why we seem to forget things so quickly.

You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much.

Vaunting ambition can be a terrible thing, but if allied to great ability – a protean energy, grand purpose, the gift of oratory, near-perfect recall, superb timing, inspiring leadership – it can bring about extraordinary outcomes.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall (t)his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-posts on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge.

The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers

anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.

Never forgive, never forget.