“True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.” WayHeartFactsAgeDifficultMemoriesBrainPathFireWiseSpringWideAspirationFedsConceptionThreadWitheringTrue WisdomDeep Heart Book:Success and Its Conditions Source: Success and Its Conditions
“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.” ThinkingWould BeRunningDifficultMemoriesBrainConsciousnessComputerProgramCeaseTurned OffNeural Networks Author:Stephen Hawking
“We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.” PeopleGivingWritingReasonStoriesPastRememberDifficultMemoriesEventsDifficultyReason WhyMemorableAbstractAbstractionThumbsGood StoryPast Experiences Book:Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence Source: Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence
“Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.” KnowsSometimesWould BeCertainDifficultMemoriesCasesChildhoodEmotionalDown AndPainfulUpsetNails Author:Justin Torres
“I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsRealDoneProblemFilmActorsStrongDifficultMemoriesConsciousnessVery StrongTrickyOur MemoriesReal ProblemsImpersonatePollock Author:Peter Webber
“Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.” TogetherUsedOrderDifficultSidesMemoriesInterestingSceneWorking TogetherRelevantCleaningVery InterestingVividRewritingCleaning UpOddities Author:Mary J. Miller
“I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure time. Time is confusing to me. That's why I do a lot of manipulations of time in my books, in part because an orderly time is physically difficult for me to conceive of in my brain.” I CanBookDifficultMemoriesForgetBrainHorribleManipulationHistorianConfusingOrderly Author:Lucy Corin
“The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.” PeopleKnowsWantSelfFeelingsProblemDifficultHurtMemoriesNovelKnow HowIssuesHarderFactorsExtrasServingAutobiographyOur MemoriesSelf Serving Author:Richard Hell