“you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Dimitri: "You're burned in my mind forever. There's nothing, nothing in this world that could ever change that'" Rose: "And it was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“What are the design implications? Don’t count on much being retained in STM. Computer systems often enhance people’s frustration when things go… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke… — Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The important difference between theory and practice lies precisely in the detection of the sequence of events and retaining the sequence in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bottom of… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a… — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
“There are moments in my life that stick to my memory. I suppose it's the same for everyone—snippets of life pasted in… — Benjamin X. Wretlind Copy Share Image
“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be… — John Ray Copy Share Image
“All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances,… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
A master of happiness will appreciate what he or she has while they have them and the moment any specific thing is… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
“Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“But the fact is that writing is the only way in which I am able to cope with the memories which overwhelm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim of the sky will be the colour of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“In the end, when life’s last flickers fade, all that remains is memory. Richness, in the final measure, is not weighed in… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“It was as if she had more than learned it off by heart. Though. it was as if their memory, the memory… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A chill crept into his limbs and he began to question his struggle against the sure demise of his damaged flesh—so much… — Georgina Anne Taylor Copy Share Image
“And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar,… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He slotted some ice, connected the construct, and jacked in. It was exactly the sensation of someone reading over his shoulder. He… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I've walked a long trail, a long trail of years flushed with tears. Tears of remembrance. Years of driven labor have not… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
