George Eliot Quotes

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

George Eliot

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Brain
  • Same
  • Memory

• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Humble
  • Build
  • Nest

• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Think
  • Memory

• I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Memory
  • Hot
  • Iron

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Story
  • Memory

• I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Lost

• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Memory
  • Possible
  • Racial

• Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Brain

• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Great
  • Memory
  • Liar

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Forget
  • Memory
  • Never Forget

• Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Memory

• A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • People
  • Good
  • Memory

• The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • World
  • Truth
  • American

• Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Never

• Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Promise
  • Secret
  • Drink

• Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Expression
  • Wells
  • Treats

• Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with what Mike Kelly was doing, and now what Cullen Murphy is doing with Atlantic. It's a really cool magazine.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Cool
  • Excited
  • Magazines

• I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

  

  George Eliot
  • Memory
  • Childish
  • Nest