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Our Memories Quotes by Joshua Foer
- We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually…
- To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not…
- Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
- We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as…
- 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…
- Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first…
- Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,…
- Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
More Our Memories Quotes
- By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to… — Theodore Bikel
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges
- Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do… — Joshua Foer
- Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our… — Gloria Gaither
- Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at… — Vaclav Havel
- The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,… — Marcel Proust
- Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson
- How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not… — Jackie Kay
- What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours,… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
- To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories. — Stephen Covey
- I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The… — Rajneesh