- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memories Quotes
What stays with us long after the moment passes.
This page collects quotes on memory from very different sources - sports loyalty built over generations, a warm family vacation spent kayaking on the islands, and the honest admission that some memories return only in pieces. See also Past.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.
- Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'
- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a different impression of what they are eating; not everyone tastes the same things, and definitely, not everyone has the same food memories.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it.
- Decent People
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- Nov 07, 2020