Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.
Memory is the basis of every journey.
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. . . . With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.
You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.
I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.
I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
I fly through memory to find a newborn love.
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 think you have a memory; but it has you!
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
Memory feeds imagination.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.