Best memories & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.”

Wells Stills Action Memories Alive Grew Type Grew Up Racism South Painful Sexism Homophobia Words And Actions

Author:Pauley Perrette

“The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .”

Knows Feelings Action Causes Memories Effects Consequence Unconscious Anticipation Parallels Identical Inference

Book:Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations

Source: Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.”

“When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.”

Thinking Action Pain Causes Loses Memories Fire Bears Medicine Guilt Good Things Committed Not Sure Guarantees Sheer Repetition Dose Retrospect

Author:Mary McCarthy

“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!”

Writing Trying Persons Ends Whole Moments Feelings Action Memories Reader Despair Chaos Wide Rage Unhappy Reactions Vain Association Gestures Jungle Always Trying Action And Reaction

Book:Blue Voyage: A Novel

Source: Blue Voyage: A Novel

“Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.”

Helping Action Memories Patient Analysis Unconscious

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”

Writing Trying Long Action Lasts Given Memories Practice Ears Casts Pens Polish Paragraph Deposits Mould

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

“Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.”

“For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.”

Action Remember Choices Memories Moral Remember You Remembers You Moral Action

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.”

Mind May Action Fall Memories Known Principles Mankind Taught Errors Sentences Remembered Folly Contracts Impressed Recollection Benefactors Rules Of Life

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.”

Should Use Action Remember Memories Information Objects Dialogue Visible Appropriate Instruction Users Load

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“We're in essence allowing our spirit to come to terms with all the conflicts that we build within ourselves. Disease is after all a conflict within the tissue itself. Memory fading within the tissue, conflict of our actions or thoughts, our lives are not seamlessly running together in some way for ourselves, and had not been for a long time before we get to the critical point of a disease.”

Way Long Running Action Together Spirit Term Memories Our Lives Conflict Disease Long Time Essence Critical Allowing Our Actions Tissues Fading Running Together

Author:Maya Tiwari

“Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it's completely blank.”

Way Action Remember Courses Memories Pieces Details Blank Colorful

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.”

“Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.”

Source: My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir

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