Memory Quotes

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

An angel has no memory.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.