Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Williams, Tennessee

Russell, Peter

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Didion, Joan

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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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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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare