Our Memories Quotes - Page 6

• Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your speech and blur your memory, making you wonder who are all those people out there and why are they staring at you?

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Memories, People, Giving

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1983). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Believe, Soul

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

  S.J. Watson

  Memories, House, Treasure

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• Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Motivation, Short Life

  "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Filth, Spirit

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• The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions imposed, as was the case in South Africa, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Cuba and Haiti. Why for us no? Why legalize death in one place and somewhere else no? This is clear in our memories.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Memories, Iraq, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.indians.org

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• I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Taken

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

  Matthew Quick

  Memories, Night, Thinking

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• Quantum physics says that there is an infinite number of possibilities and parallels to the one that we know, and every event is also played out in a parallel world. It's kind of a crazy idea, but someone called Saibal Mitra at the University of Amsterdam says that if you could back up your memory in case of a catastrophic event, you could actually revert to that back-up and find an alternative world in which the Earth didn't explode or collide with Mars.

  Momus

  Memories, Crazy, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Order, Soul

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• 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.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Drug

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• 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

  Matt Groening

  Memories, Tv Shows, Down And

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• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

  Joshua Foer

  Photography, Memories, Technology

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Summer, Jobs, Memories

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• Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

  Robert Southey

  Happiness, Memories, Years

  Robert Southey (1930). “The doctor, &c”

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• History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Memories, History, Overcoming

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

  Lance Reddick

  Memories, Thinking, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Happiness, Letting Go, Memories

  Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.413, Macmillan

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• After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Museums, Individual Happiness

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.462, Faber & Faber

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• It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.

  Helen Hollick

  Memories, Vivid, Forget

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• Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Taken, Self

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.275, Random House

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• We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Memories, Long, Risk

  Nicholas G. Carr (2010). “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Stars, Memories

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• I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

  Peter Orner

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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