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If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. -- Robert Wilson
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. -- Denis Diderot
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. -- Richard Eyre
Let your memory be your travel bag. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. -- Joseph Conrad
Nothing stands still, except in our memory. -- Philippa Pearce
Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. -- Pierre Bonnard
Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memory. -- Gary Numan
We should use our imagination more than our memory. -- Shimon Peres
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes. -- Dave Barry
Health is a return to our memory of wholeness. -- David Simon
Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory. -- Debasish Mridha
I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics. -- Keith Olbermann
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. -- Claude Simon
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. -- Junot Diaz
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. -- John Calvin
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. -- Jorge Luis Borges
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. -- T. S. Eliot
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. -- Pliny the Younger
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. -- Paulo Coelho
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. -- E. Joseph Cossman
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. -- Georges Duhamel
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. -- Norman Wisdom
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. -- Joseph Conrad
I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave. -- Susie Clevenger
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. -- Emile M. Cioran
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. -- Tony Buzan
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? -- Alanis Morissette
An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams. -- Anna Held
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. -- Susan Sontag
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say... -- Margaret George
Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements -- Richard G. Scott
Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited. -- Molly Friedenfeld
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. -- Ivan KlÃma
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. -- Nita Leland
Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193 -- Craig Clevenger
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. -- Carol Ann Duffy
You used to love me. Let me help jog your memory by buying you some running shoes. The shoes will be wooden, and nailed to the floor. -- Jarod Kintz
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks. -- Abbey Lincoln
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. -- Kurt Cobain
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brainâ??s own ability to remember things. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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. -- Todd Haynes
If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things -- Jaggi Vasudev
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations. -- Seneca the Younger
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt. -- Orhan Pamuk
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal. -- Jim Rohn
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. -- Oswald Chambers
The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves. -- Michael Parenti
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. -- Daniel Kahneman
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
Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement. -- Cate Blanchett
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true. -- Carl De Keyzer
If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite. -- Stephen Covey
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? -- Tony Buzan
When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit. -- Maria Konnikova
If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser. -- Frederick Lenz
Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginningsÂ?. -- John Philip Newell
If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about. -- Allen Grossman
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? -- Tony Buzan
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. -- Marcel Proust
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only two kinds of feelings remain in our memory vividly: love and hate. Love recalls how many years we could live, but hate how many years we only existed wasting the given opportunities to live. -- Elmar Hussein
To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done. -- John H. Lienhard
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. -- Diane Ackerman
I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul. -- Umberto Eco
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train. -- Marcel Proust
That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory. -- C.P. Cavafy
If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down. -- Jim Rohn
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? -- Michael Leunig
I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant. -- Andy Roddick
We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory. -- Laura Dave
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists. -- Ralph Ellison
Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you're going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now - pay attention to that and all will be well. -- Neale Donald Walsch
My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love. -- Bonnie Tyler
To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination. -- George Schaller
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. -- Gary Wolf
Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your speech and blur your memory, making you wonder who are all those people out there and why are they staring at you? -- Teresa Bloomingdale
The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today. -- David Suzuki
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces. -- Charlie Kaufman
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. -- Orson Scott Card
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes. -- Diane F. Halpern
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. -- William Zinsser
To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long. -- Joshua Cohen
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. -- Heloise
The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad. -- Dhani Jones
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. -- Heloise
If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought! -- John Milton
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved. -- Joshua Foer
Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory. -- Dorothea Dix
Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality. -- Archibald Marwizi
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. -- Marcel Proust
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! -- John Irving
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing. -- Luis Bunuel
We think of our future as anticipated memories. -- Daniel Kahneman
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. -- Emile M. Cioran
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature. -- Sadie Jones
I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. -- Rick Smolan
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. -- Rosa Parks
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. -- Eric Schmidt
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. -- Olga Kurylenko
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. -- Jesse Jackson
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. -- Stevie Wonder
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. -- Lois Lowry
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. -- Joshua Foer
It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other. -- Josh Radnor
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. -- Lewis B. Smedes
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
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least. -- Joshua Foer

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