Albert Camus Quotes

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

Albert Camus

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• 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

• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

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

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• 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

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• 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

• 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

• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Help
  • Past

• 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

• The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • World
  • American
  • Government

• 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

• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Mind
  • Future

• 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

• We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Change
  • Things
  • Memory

• Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

  

  Brassaï
  • Memory
  • Images
  • Conceived

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

  

  Slick Rick
  • Expression
  • Wells
  • Treats

• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Like
  • Son

• To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Memory
  • Reference
  • Landmarks