Memory Quote by Jennifer Senior Download Open image ““We enshrine things in memory very differently from how we experience them in real time.”” — Jennifer Senior ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Real time Time
“It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.” — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“We expend more effort in trying to forget memories than in trying to create them.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't… — Jamie Kain Copy Share Image
“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.” — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
“SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change—like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen’s University in Ontario, can in some respects… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“Dying, in other words — like combat, like becoming a parent, like any transformative life event — doesn’t always reveal or intensify aspects of… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“Our stories may not always be pleasant as they’re being lived. They can in fact be just the opposite, acquiring a warm hue only… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern family is just that - modern - and… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and more stuff… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“In that same lecture, Kahneman confessed that the outsize power of the remembering self mystified him. “Why do we put so much weight on… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“But these gains in freedom for both men and women often seem like a triumph of subtraction rather than addition. Over time, writes Coontz,… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“He just has to step away from the moment to see it. Which isn’t surprising. Lots of parents will tell you that when they… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“One could simply say it’s a legitimate fear-response, a reasonable and deeply internalized reaction to a shrinking economic pie.” — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“If one takes meaning into consideration, happiness might best be described as “a zest for life in all its complexity,” as Sissela Bok writes… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image