Quotes About Memory

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out.

Ä°nsanlar bir nedenle birbirine güvenirdi; nedenini unuttum.

She was silent. Time stopped, shifted, and went lazily in reverse. Somehow, then, it was always summer.

Bu böyle deÄŸildi, yemin ederim deÄŸildi. Ä°nsanlar bir nedenle birbirlerine güvenirdi; nedenini unuttum...

it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are.

Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson's upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.

I hope the world will little note nor long remember what you are saying here.

Unutmaktan korkana kadar okumay? hiç sevmemiÅŸtim. Kim nefes almay? sevmez ki?

Den varma bittersöta lukten av rena negrer

It was not always like this, I swear it wasn't. People used to trust each other for some reason. I've forgotten why.

The harder you push at an unreliable memory, the less reliable it

the biography of a childhood which necessarily is the biography of a place, a way of life gone forever out of the world.

His old personality had been stripped from his mind and a new one implanted. Only the body remained of the old Pepe who had loved Angelina and stolen a battleship.

Only when he was working on his second glass did he remember to offer me some of this potable aqua regia.

Most of us recognize faces (did you ever hear anyone say, "Oh, I know your name, but I don't recognize your face"?). It's the names we have trouble with. Since we do usually recognize faces, the thing to do is apply a system wherein the face tells us the name.

you some examples, you should be aware of the fact that most people don't really forget names. They just don't remember them in the first place—often, they don't really hear them in the first place. Just think back and remember the many times you've been introduced to someone, when all you heard was a mumble.

The Link system is used to remember things in sequence only, and there are many things that must be remembered, or learned, in sequence.

The best way to deliver a speech is to talk it in your own words, thought for thought. A speech is a sequence of thoughts; if the thoughts are out of sequence, the speech won't make much sense. Now, you know how to use the Link system to remember things in sequence.

Forming such a Link accomplishes two things. It forces you to concentrate on (to be Originally Aware of) the thoughts of the speech, and it will give you the sequence of thoughts. Knowing that you definitely have that sequence also gives you a confidence that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Applied to reading material, the idea forces you to read actively, with concentration; applied to lectures, it does the same thing. It's difficult to allow your mind to wander when you're listening for Key Words to remind you of thoughts. The next time you want to remember more of reading or lecture material than you usually do, try applying what you've learned here. You'll be surprised at how much you retain.

To remember jokes, many professional comedians Link a Key Word or thought of one joke to the Key Word of the next, and so on. The comedian knows the jokes; he simply needs reminders of the jokes and their sequence.

Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.