Daniel Schacter Quotes

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

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• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

  

  Val Guest
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Wife
  • End

• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Elected
  • First Lady

• 'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Church

• It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Purpose

• I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • Evil

• Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Sacrifice

• By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • World
  • Mind
  • Home

• My work is anti-natureThe four-story mountainYou will not think form, space, line, contourJust a suggestion of nature gives weightlight and heavylight like a featheryou get light enough and you levitate

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Light

• I have actually been very fortunate that I've met a lot of really wonderful straight men in my life - and a lot of really wonderful gay men in my life.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Gay

• Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

  

  Doc Watson
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Intimacy

• I don't believe in eating throughout the day. I eat every four hours.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Believe

• I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Up
  • Power
  • Choices

• To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

  

  Karen White
  • Giving
  • Chance
  • Regret

• Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check.

  

  John W. Snow
  • Growth

• I am very excited about the future for Ulta Beauty.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Future

• To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Past
  • Party

• The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Future
  • Small
  • Lies

• Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

  

  Daniel Schacter
  • Future
  • Past
  • Memories