“Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.” BitsMemoriesDetailsAwfulMaliciousSlow MotionCutters Author:Colson Whitehead
“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.” BelieveMeanMatterAbleRememberUsedI BelieveMemoriesPerfectForgetDetailsForget ItGood MemoriesRemembers Everything Author:Amber Dermont
“Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.” ThinkingMeanDoeRememberMemoriesEmotionHappenedDetailsCharacteristicsRemember Something Author:Elizabeth Loftus
“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsMemoriesDesignPaintingNeededSkillsConceptsPaintDetailsDrivenAround The WorldRelyTechnical Skills Author:Milford Zornes
“Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.” PeopleIfsMayDoeWishLosesMemoriesEmotionEdgesDetailsAcidOutlinesBlur Book:Mosaic Source: Mosaic
“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.” PeopleSometimesRememberTurnsStuffMemoriesHappenedSceneDetails Author:Rick Moody
“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.” WayActionRememberCoursesMemoriesPiecesDetailsBlankColorful Author:Marjane Satrapi
“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.” MenHumansFormProcessMemoriesAbilityDealsClassEnvironmentExampleDiversityPerceptionCapacityUniversalStrategyDetailsConfusionInstancePerceiveDiverseTypicalCognitionThought ProcessUniversal Truth Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand
“In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.” ArtFeelingsMemoriesTheoryWalkingSkillsDiscoveryInstinctDetailsEnormousDenialSpeculationPsychiatrySeriousnessPsychoanalysisUnyielding Author:Judith Perelman Rossner
“It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.” KindMadeMemoriesConversationDetailsMemoirFakeRecalls Author:Paul Auster
“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.” IfsMenFeelsFirstsChildrenSometimesVoiceMemoriesRoomsColorReturnFirst TimeTrackDetailsSmellToneVisualsAuditory Author:Martha Manning
“In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.” NeedsMemoriesComputerAddDetailsLitAnimationComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.” NeedsLongMemoriesTechnologyCenturyPhotographyConceptsInstitutionsDistanceDetailsDescriptionMuseumsDefiningCredibilityObjectivityNineteenth CenturyLong DistanceArchivesRigorConsolidationOptics Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.” ThinkingHeartRealHardProblemLightRememberGuyMemoriesBrainDetailsNot SureFillingBright LightsFilling In Author:Phil Klay