Degrees Quote by Milan Kundera

“(existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity…

— Milan Kundera

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment,…

— Milan Kundera

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

— Milan Kundera

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed…

— Bill Nye

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton

“The slower your brain is at processing sensory information, the faster time seems to run, and vice versa’ How”

— Jean Paul Zogby

“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of existential mathematics:…

— Milan Kundera

Moving slowly enables us to learn faster.

— Paulo Coelho

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as…

— Sarah Manguso

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you…

— Faith Salie

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

— Rumi

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of…

— William James