- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It's something I've done with my children since they were born.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
- Nov 07, 2020
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a good flavor memory.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.
- No Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
An angel has no memory.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the coolest days of my life was when I bought a 16K memory card upgrade and stuck it in my Apple II. I was kind of a geek.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think my best memory was taking my baby sisters trick-or-treating for the first time.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and just getting to the story.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.
- Groom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own or groom myself. The disease felled me physically and mentally - robbing me, briefly but intensely, of my wits, my sanity, my memory, my self.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is memory and metaphor.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
- Chopin
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- Nov 07, 2020
They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.
- DNA
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
White Americans have a short memory.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020