Memory Quotes

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One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it… — Joshua Foer
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits… — Joshua Foer
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so… — Joshua Foer
I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory. — Josh Hartnett
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember… — Lillian Hellman
A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of… — Dree Hemingway
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. — Audrey Hepburn
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. — George Herbert
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — Billie Holiday
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. — Kin Hubbard
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo
Every man's memory is his private literature. — Aldous Huxley
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. — Jeremy Irons
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you… — John Irving
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. — Washington Irving
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. — Kazuo Ishiguro
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm… — Hugh Jackman

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