Quotes About Recollection

the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…

Where a boy runs he never forgets.

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

Sé que me pareció hermosa. Pero no consigo evocar su hermosura.

Memory does not prolong the existence of the past; it is merely one way in which the past has effects.

When the rapacity of capitalists grows oppressive, one may be suddenly consoled by the recollection that Brutus, that exemplar of republican virtue, lent money to a city at 40 per cent, and hired a private army to besiege it when it failed to pay the interest.

But memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will...

How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind, but nonetheless familiar in the heart.

As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

She'd thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn't a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with.

one must forget the past—more accurately, one must remember the necessity of forgetting.

The next question is: How will you remember what the client tells you? There are many schools of thought:

The problem isn't that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs.

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.

The problem is not that people remember through photographs, but that they remember only the photographs. This remembering through photographs eclipses other forms of understanding, and remembering.

When something changes your life, Lisette, you remember everything.

She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it.

I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one