Marcel Proust Quotes
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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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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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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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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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
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This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie The Big Short.
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Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.
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Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
