Ifs Quote by John F. Carlson

Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

— Frederick Lenz

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits

I don't think I will ever be erased from people's memory as I like to believe the work I do leaves an impact on…

— Atul Kulkarni

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

— Nikola Tesla

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

— Michel de Montaigne

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“However, if you keep on doing what you have always done, you are going to get what you have always gotten. You need to…

— Kevin Horsley

When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling -…

— DJ Spooky

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

— David Rockwell

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,…

— Joshua Foer

“If you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter…

— Sally Mann