Quotes About Memory

Il devient quelque chose de déjà perdu, et je souffre moins. De tout. Comme de son silence. « Je t'appellerai dès que je rentre. » Mais sait-il le sens exact de « dès que » ? Il doit être rentré hier. Tout de même. Dominique L. me parle de La Havane : il y a des boîtes de nuit, petites, où il fait presque noir.

Hier, on se disputait à reconstituer le séjour de Leningrad, l'emploi du temps des deux jours. Il voulait lire mon journal. On a encore parlé de Staline, de la guerre. Son père a été « décoré » par Staline...

Ver con la imaginación o volver a ver por medio de la memoria es el patrimonio de la escritura.

The difference such minimal instruction made in participants' ability to recall information, they noted, was "striking": students who incorporated movement into their learning strategy remembered 76 percent of the material, while those who engaged in "deliberate memorization" recalled only 37 percent.

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Even though the run of The Dining Room had ended five months earlier, and many of the actors had learned new roles since then, they still remembered the lines from Gurney's play that had been accompanied onstage by movement or gestures (as when Arthur holds out the spoon to Sally). Lines they had delivered while standing or sitting still, the Noices discovered, were much more likely to be forgotten.

Concluded Helga and Tony Noice in one of their academic articles, "One might paraphrase Descartes and say, 'I move, therefore I remember.'

I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved - from a time I can already vividly remember. I wonder if this is a hazard of being a writer: a sense of detachment that sometimes makes the present seem like it is already past.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

You never really know the true value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

May he rest in peace.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond. Your brain today is very, very different from what it was when you were 10 years old, and yet you may have profound memories from when you were 10.

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

My brain has been programmed to listen to music a certain way because of the Beatles.

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

I actually didn't go to prom. I didn't have the chance.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.

My mother was prone to calling me by her secretaries' names and working through each of them until she got to Carol.