Our Memories Quotes - Page 4

• I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Believe, I Believe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.344

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• Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Moments

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Memories, Numbers

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• In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

  Martin Seligman

  Life, Memories, Work

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.15, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

  John Irving

  Memories, Monsters, Doe

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

  Garrison Keillor

  Memories, Exercise, May

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• To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Expectations, Duration

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43

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• That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Memories, Love You, Mean

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.

  John Ralston Saul

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Betrayal, Fall

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• Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Party, Character

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• What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Memories, Holiday, People

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• I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Memories, Thinking, Space

  "Charlie Kaufman: A true original". www.today.com. March 18, 2004.

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• The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of out lives. Mt. Rainier does not exist under our feet. Mt. Rainier lives in our minds

  Bruce Barcott

  Memories, Expression, Feet

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• Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times we recall them- the memories of our loves, our youths, our life experiences. These dreams appear to us, and for seconds, minutes, or hours we are there once again.

  James Michael

  Dream, Memories, Our Love

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• May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

  Beth Moore

  Memories, Kindness, Long

  Beth Moore (2006). “David: 90 Days with a Heart Like His”, p.177, B&H Publishing Group

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• When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

  Maria Konnikova

  Memories, Stress, Suffering

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Memories, Order, Names

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.338, Courier Corporation

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• Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

  Clive Thompson

  Memories, Computer, Social

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• Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

  Michael Bassey

  Memories, Soul, Dies

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• Don't ever let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

  Jim Craig

  Dream, Memories, Bigger

  "Fatherhood, Hockey, & the Power of Dreams: An Interview with Jim Craig, Olympic Gold Medalist". Interview with Frederick J. Goodall, mochadad.com. October 31, 2013.

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• If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

  William Zinsser

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  William Zinsser (2005). “Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

  David Leavitt

  Memories, Thinking, Degrees

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