Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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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.
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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.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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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.
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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.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
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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.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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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.
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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.
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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
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Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.
