Choke Quote by Virgilia Peterson

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

— Blake Morrison

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we…

— William James

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

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Alain de Botton

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

— Deepak Chopra

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

— Galen Rowell

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

— Salman Rushdie

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer