#memory

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#forgotten #hot #i #just #know

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

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

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

#chance #chemical #dangerous #everything #find

A liar should have a good memory. ↗

— Quintilian

#good memory #liar #memory #should

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. ↗

— Quintilian

#fitting #good #good memory #liar #man

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #augments #because #continually #deeds