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Our Memory Quotes

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us Picture Quote #1

Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense Picture Quote #1

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered? Picture Quote #1

I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It’s not so much that you’ve lost your memory, more like you’re submerged in it, like you’re living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past Picture Quote #1

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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will Picture Quote #1

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say Picture Quote #1

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there’s an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures Picture Quote #1

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn’t currently being used Picture Quote #1

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I’ve never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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? Picture Quote #1

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us (Our Memory Quotes) Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense (Our Memory Quotes) How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered? (Our Memory Quotes) I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It’s not so much that you’ve lost your memory, more like you’re submerged in it, like you’re living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past (Our Memory Quotes) What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will (Our Memory Quotes) We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say (Our Memory Quotes) If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose? (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there’s an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures (Our Memory Quotes) Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn’t currently being used (Our Memory Quotes) I’ve never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) 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? (Our Memory Quotes) To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes) 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 (Our Memory Quotes)

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