#memo

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ↗

— George Savile

#his #jewels #like #man #memory

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. ↗

— George Savile

#good #good memory #memory #prophet #qualification

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#fact #fascinated #i #memory #way

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#know #me #memoir #people #showbiz

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#called #deeper #inflicted #material #memory

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#his #imagination #indebted #jests #memory

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#beautiful #beautiful thing #consider #horrible #i

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#perseverance #sophie-kinsella #life