Quotes About Retrieval

A Collie who learns to chase a ball before he learns how to control his enthusiasm can become ball-obsessed. A Collie who learns how to invent his own game with a ball, before running to retrieve one, will be less obsessive, and will be able to amuse himself without getting over-excited.

PATIENT: Doctor, is it common for sixty-year-olds to have problems with short-term memory storage? DOCTOR: The problem is not storing memory. The problem is retrieval.

I root through your remains, looking for the black box. Nothing left but glossy chunks, a pimp's platinum tooth clanking inside the urn. I play you over and over, my beloved conspiracy, my personal Zapruder film

Of course her dumb Lab's going to do whatever it takes to retrieve the ball. What he craves more than freedom is companionship.

You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.

We have to bring back his eye by the

i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

Conceptual Differences Between Consolidation and Reconsolidation. According to consolidation theory each time we retrieve a memory we retrieve the original memory. Reconsolidation theory, on the other hand, suggests that each time we retrieve a memory, the memory is potentially changed (updated); thus, you retrieve the memory you stored after the last retrieval rather than the original memory.

For example, a threatening stimulus—say, a snake at your feet on a path in the woods—will automatically elicit defensive responses that occur as a result of activation of a defensive survival circuit. This is an a-noetic state that does not have any necessary connection to conscious knowing or the self. However, the same stimulus that triggered the a-noetic state can, and likely will, also result in the retrieval of conscious noetic knowledge (semantic memory) about

A collection tells the story of the collector. A collection is a shoring up against the things that have gone missing. So much goes missing.

If God said it, I want to believe it. If God gives it, I want to receive it. If God shows it, I want to perceive it. If Satan stole it, I want to retrieve it.

The vision of his wife, Jacqueline, crawling onto the back of the limo in order to retrieve the president's shattered skull has stayed with me always.

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Of course they do. It's like an elaborate game of fetch—ow!

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

Reading problems may stem from dysfunctions of phonologic or phonemic awareness, deficient analysis or recognition of visual patterns, active working memory limitations, and/or reduced lexical access. The latter might be part of a much broader memory retrieval or language dysfunction.

Of course, maybe that's what I love best of all about God. We've never gone so far that we can't be fetched.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

Just like a human foetus, while in the uterus, retrieves and assimilates the components that allow its physical body to become whole and fit to emerge into the outer reality, the third dimension serves the purpose of shamanic pregnancy, which is about retrieving and integrating the fragmented pieces of the soul, finally giving birth to the multidimensional self.

She is standing in a garden trying to peg together scraps of memory on a washing line, but the wind snatches them away, scattering them out of her reach.

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

a memória, para poder funcionar bem, precisa de um treino incessante: se as recordações não são evocadas, uma vez mais e outra vez ainda, nas conversas entre amigos, vão-se embora.