Quotes About Memory

But what I've always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he'd done just a second before. Good or bad. Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. Which

Did I see her? I practically birthed her!

What can I do to force myself to remember? Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind. Carry it so deeply in the pockets of my existence.

memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In

Can you understand what it's like to miss something so terribly that you'll accept even the shadow of its memory to keep your heart from withering away?" -From "Danaïd Night

Why is it that people are precious to you only after they're a memory?

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting

Never forget is not something you say on a prescribed day; if it is real it is something you live the rest of your life

The respect you show those who are no longer with you builds respect with those who are.

The senses and intuition, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, of which man posts, may be found in an incipient or even sometimes in a well developed condition, in the lower animals." -Darwin

Our souls are wired for what we will never enjoy until Eden is restored in the new heaven and earth. We are built with a distant memory of Eden."8

Our souls are wired for what we will never enjoy until Eden is restored in the new heaven and earth. We are built with a distant memory of Eden."6

It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.

Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential in music. All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve).

have always gone out of my way to try and remember people's names and then use them where I can. I find the best way to do this is to make a rhyme about their name when you meet them, or even better, associate their name with another person you know well with the same name.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

When you are describing things and places the reader has seen, keep description short by reminding him of the pictures he has on file. When you are describing things and places the reader has not seen, keep description short by using pieces of the pictures he has on file to create new pictures.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.