Daniel Schacter Quotes

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

Daniel Schacter

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• 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

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

  

  Val Guest
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• '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

• 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

• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

  

  David Johansen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Different
  • Real

• I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band

• To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Experience

• Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • People
  • Education
  • Health

• Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Company
  • Products

• Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.

  

  R. B. Kitaj
  • People
  • Done
  • Painting

• I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Working
  • Role

• I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

  

  John Kluge
  • Book

• I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Past
  • Brain
  • Thoughts

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

  

  Daniel Schacter
  • Future
  • Past
  • Memories