Quotes about memories
memories culture built
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. Joshua Foer
memories tape use
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
memories creativity skills
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
memories order two
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
memories party training
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
memories mean knowing
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.
memories information bigger
Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.
memories ideas culture
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.
memories motivation short-life
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
memories life-is this-life
What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more. Kate Mosse
memories house
Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton Kate Morton
memories war past
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.
memories mistress
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
memories father wife
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision. Justin Halpern
memories love-you snowflake
Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory Leonard Cohen
memories thinking years
Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory. Lembit Opik
memories forget
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting Lauren Beukes
memories snapshots locks
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.
memories vampire teeth
I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too. Laurell K. Hamilton
memories needs doe
...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.
memories moon night
It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.
memories proud principles
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. John Keats
memories liberty
Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
memories past appreciate
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present. John Kenneth Galbraith
memories believe investing
A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.
memories freedom political
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
memories golf people
Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up. John Daly
memories kissing years
His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing. Lisa Kleypas
memories boredom mediocrity
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies. Lisa Gerrard
memories home years
My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age. Lionel Messi
memories racing needs
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad. Lindsey Vonn
memories years ideas
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives. Linus Pauling
memories children linux
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. Linus Torvalds