#memory

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around. ↗

— John Wooden

#away #eyesight #going #going away #good

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#bag #basis #cassette #commit #constant

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory. ↗

— Josh Hartnett

#create #fun #fun things #i #memory

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. ↗

— James Herriot

#couple #days #even #happened #having

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#avoided #dark #imagination #meet #memory