Motivational Quotes

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.

- Boynton, Sandra

Best Quotes about Memory

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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Boynton, Sandra

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover