Our Memories Quotes - Page 11

• We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

  Laura Dave

  Memories, Years, Brain

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

  Harold Klemp

  Dream, Spiritual, Memories

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• Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Time, Memories

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• To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

  Claude Simon

  Memories, Perspective, Perception

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• Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Stress, Past

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  Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

  Angela Carter

  Memories, Vices, Watches

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.10, Random House

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• Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Writing, Simple

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Real

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• There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?

  John Huston

  Memories, Past, Roots

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• You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Memories, Slides

  Roger Ebert (1985). “A Kiss Is Still a Kiss”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

  Padgett Powell

  Memories, Writing, Liberty

  Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.22, Profile Books

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• They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Vegetables

  "Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited". Interview with John Doran, thequietus.com. October 28, 2013.

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• She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

  Tony Blair

  Memories, Princess, Heart

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

  Diane F. Halpern

  Memories, Mistake, Decision

  Diane F. Halpern (2002). “Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, 4th Edition”, p.340, Routledge

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• Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.

  Tobias Wolff

  Memories, Mean, People

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• However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Memories, Appreciate, Family And Friends

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• We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

  Lydia Davis

  Memories, Character, Ongoing

  "Lydia Davis: I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters". Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January, 2008.

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

  Brian Greene

  Memories, Past, Special

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.175, Vintage

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• Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Crush, Memories

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• A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

  Alfred Binet

  Memories, Intelligent, Practice

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• Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Memories, Giving, Perfect

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.954, e-artnow

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• I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Memories, Believe

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• Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

  Jan Timman

  Memories, Forever, Chess

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