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

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Boynton, Sandra

21.

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

39.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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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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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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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia