Memory Retrieval Quotes

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

I don't even know my own phone number.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

What business does memory have with time?

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

Memory changes as a person matures.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.