Memory Quotes

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. — Annie Dillard
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. — Bob Dylan
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. — Georges Duhamel
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for… — Kevin Durant
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be… — Umberto Eco
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. — George Eliot
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less… — Black Elk
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. — Paul Engle
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or… — James Fenton
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. — Gustave Flaubert
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. — Joshua Foer
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to… — Joshua Foer
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what… — Joshua Foer
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave… — Joshua Foer
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the… — Joshua Foer

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