Our Memories Quotes - Page 8

• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Freedom, Real

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• That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

  Ralph Ellison

  Memories, Odds, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.237, Modern Library

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• Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

  Vaclav Havel

  Memories, Party, Adventure

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 4: "Public Enemy", 1990.

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• The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Past, Moments

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone”, p.64, Marcel Proust

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• If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Going Away, Locks

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

  Richard Thompson

  Memories, Grieving, Shirts

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• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Memories, Illiterate

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.

  William Davis

  Memories, Records, Paper

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• We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

  Joshua Foer

  Art, Memories, Habit

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.188, Penguin

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• It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

  John Dufresne

  Memories, Writing, Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.

  Jackie Kay

  Girl, Memories, Past

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

  Stephen Covey

  Memories, Creativity, Successful

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• I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Real, Past

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• Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

  Dave Barry

  Memories, Technology, Information

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Forgotten Things, Digital

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• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Literature, Nails

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tryon Edwards, 1908.

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• Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

  Bob Dylan

  Memories, Grows

  Song: Trying To Get To Heaven, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

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• [Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

  Laura Esquivel

  Memories, Powerful, Lying

  Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub

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• Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Syntax, Coherence

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• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Passion, Vanity

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “Selected Works of Joseph Conrad”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Life, Memories, Remembrance

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Exercise, Doors

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.407, Vintage

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• No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

  Anne Rice

  Memories, Yield, Long

  "Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles, Book 8)". Book by Anne Rice, October 16, 2001.

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• We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

  John Pilger

  Peace, Memories, Struggle

  Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech in University of Sydney, November 4, 2009.

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