Quotes About Recollection

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

Flashback in film rarely works.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

I knew off by heart the names of the Real Madrid team that played Liverpool in the European Cup final of 1981.

I feel like some of the delivery that people find funny is literally me trying to remember the exact line in real time.

I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.

events were burned into his memory and so he used them to remember time

cheeses so filled with aromatic herbs they inspired memories that had never happened.

The nesting doll of memory collapses into its component pieces, each leading someplace smaller and smaller [...]

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.

other, just as if it had been only yesterday when

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

It's funny, I can talk to Dad about races we ran, or I can remember some races he's raced when I was there working on the car. I'm sure other athletes are the same, where they can remember what pitches they threw or what plays they ran.

I'm not paying attention to Kevin Durant. I don't have any recollection of watching him play. I can't remember how he shoots free throws.

Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject to manipulation.

Educational psychologist Jerome Bruner of New York University cites studies that show that people only remember 10% of what they hear, 30% of what they read, but about 80% of what they see and do.

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