Memory Quotes

• Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Learning

• The muscle memory of filtering away all the wrong versions of what you're doing improves the more time you're on a film set. I feel like my problem-solving algorithm got kicked up a notch.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Problem
  • Algorithms
  • Improves

• The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet it serves them to little use in common life; in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse, according to their differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one another.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Way
  • Memory
  • Govern

• I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Forever
  • Hands
  • I Hope

• Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Memory
  • Vein

• A lot has happened in the world and as a country we seem to have a short term memory loss.

  

  Jane Rosenthal
  • World
  • Country
  • Loss

• When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Learning
  • Angry
  • Secret

• Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you from what we cannot hold the stars are made.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Distance
  • Ways
  • Remaining

• In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

  

  Anne Bogart
  • Literature
  • Theatre
  • Memory

• I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Character
  • Emotional

• 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.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Repression

• Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Memory
  • Create
  • Head

• Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Memory

• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

  

  Sandra Ann Lauer Enigma
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Dishes

• True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • True
  • Lies
  • Formula

• Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Loss

• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Focus

• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Youth

• I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Love
  • Memory

• The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Reality
  • Memory
  • Size

• Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Change
  • City
  • Memory

• “People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Memory
  • Grandmother
  • Recollection

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