Quotes About Recollection

You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in.

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

The more you think back on an event, the worse it gets in your memory. The best way to remember something accurately is to write it down before your cynical imagination gets carried away.

The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!

And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Es un tipo de memoria muy pobre la que solo funciona hacia atrás

I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

Sí que lo olvidarás, si no lo escribes.

How much am I willing to endure in order to remember? Do I truly want to be empowered by memory or language?

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.

My memory follows rules that my conscious being cannot explain, though they may have something to do with my subconscious being.

The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.

You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they're avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

The only human disease is amnesia.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory.