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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature. -- Sadie Jones
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. -- Samuel Alexander
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. -- George Santayana
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. -- Rebecca West
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. -- Antony Beevor
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. -- John Slattery
What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience. -- Ruzwana Bashir
I have very fond memories of the Eagles from my experience with 'Invincible' and my college days in Philadelphia. But I am a Massachusetts girl and a Pats fan. -- Elizabeth Banks
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. -- David Leavitt
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being. -- Helen Fisher
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. -- Damian Loeb
I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team. -- Angela Ruggiero
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on. -- John Carmack
My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special. -- Mary Engelbreit
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated. -- William Boyd
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. -- Ayelet Waldman
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again. -- Deepak Chopra
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. -- Tony Buzan
I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences! -- Clayton Christensen
Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true. -- Daniel Kahneman
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. -- Michel de Montaigne
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience. -- Daniel Kahneman
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. -- Nicholas Sparks
I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. -- Isabel Allende
Even though it was a stressful time in my life, I have a lot of good memories from my 'Idol' experience. -- Jessica Sanchez
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. -- Lois Lowry
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories. -- Zig Ziglar
Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad. -- Abel Korzeniowski
When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way. -- Lawrence Schiller

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