Memory Quotes

• In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.

  

  Joseph P. Bradley
  • Reason
  • Understanding
  • Memory

• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Important
  • Memory
  • Musician

• To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Memory

• I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Memory
  • Grave
  • Puerto Rico

• We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Believe
  • Memory
  • Endeavor

• You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Memory
  • Taste
  • Buds

• The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Memory
  • Fine
  • Executive

• I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Memory
  • Pictures
  • Human Presence

• Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

  

  Jan Timman
  • Forever
  • Memory
  • Impression

• Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Memory
  • Disappeared
  • Our Minds

• And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

  

  Homer
  • Grief
  • Achilles
  • Hector

• Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Done
  • Past
  • Fighting

• The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Work
  • Memory
  • Products

• A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Creative
  • Memory
  • Writer

• The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

  

  Confucius
  • Strong
  • Memory
  • Ink

• I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life; that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life.

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Life
  • Randomness
  • Mimic

• When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Black
  • Flying
  • Vegas

• Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Desires

• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Tension

• Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Pain
  • Darkness
  • Knife

• While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Repression

• The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

  

  Brad Mehldau
  • Music
  • Memory
  • Suppose

• Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Joy
  • Fatherland
  • Kingdom of Heaven

• Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

  

  James Martineau
  • Grief
  • Memory
  • Affection

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