Memory Quote by Thomas Suddendorf

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

— Twyla Tharp

“A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each…

— David Thomas

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

— Elie Wiesel

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own…

— Salman Rushdie

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

— Rudolf Flesch

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The second category is long-term memory—the place where everything “remembered” resides. Long-term memory is engaged in the short term (e.g., word memorization) and in…

— David DiSalvo

“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.”

— Gerald Edelman

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

— Alain de Botton

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back…

— Elizabeth Loftus