“Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens.” KnowsFeelsDoeHappensGirlLostMemoriesMagicOne DayHappeningsNot SurePretty Girl Book:Boy's Life Source: Boy's Life
“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.” PeopleLooksStoriesFeelingsHappensPastImaginationMemoriesMy OwnFireHappenedAirStageEventsActivityEvidenceEmptyPerformancesTheaterPhotographerPhotographAtmosphereVisualsAnticipationMy ImaginationAnalogiesPersonal ExperiencesFingerprintsEmpty Stage Author:Michael Kenna
“No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.” PeopleHappensNightMemoriesSleepAnswersMiddlePressureMillionaireMiddle Of The NightUnder Pressure Author:Terry Pratchett
“If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.” IfsLooksHappensMemoriesAbilityAttentionPay AttentionRepetitionOur MemoriesRedundancy Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity” IfsMindMayLongImportantWarStoriesMightHappensAbleTermMemoriesWorryGenerationsGreedLong TermThriveFadesShort TermAtrocitiesYounger GenerationShort Term Memory Book:How to Stay Sane Source: How to Stay Sane
“I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.” Has BeensSaidMightHappensMemoriesRegretWesternAtheistPositive AtheismChineseLakesShrinesChic Book:Autobiography Source: Autobiography
“Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.” HappensMemoriesCasesCompelling Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.” KnowsFeelsFirstsMayLittlesI CanTwoMomentsHappensMovingBitsRealizingMemoriesGriefMorningWonderfulWeekDancingMusclesOverwhelmingAfternoonGesturesEvery Morning Author:Mark Doty
“What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.” HappensEyeNamesMemoriesEventsLaborSightForgottenFaithfulSignificancePrintFadesDoomedFadingBeing FaithfulPolaroids Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.” NeedsGivingSelfProblemLightHappensRememberPeaceMemoriesConsciousnessVisionSpecialFlowerSourceLowsSightImportanceThings HappenLastingDividesMarvelousTransientWhatever HappensBlandHighs And LowsMaking Memories Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.” IfsThinkingFeelingsProblemHappensEyeMovingLeftMemoriesSleepBrainHappenedMovementAmountTraumaStoresAssociatesLeft And Right Author:Matty Mullins
“To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories with you? Who are we without our memories, without our past?” HappensPastMemoriesInterestingLosingOur PastVery InterestingOur Memories Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.” KindLittlesHappensFilmCertainFallActorsFoundBitsChallengesMemoriesInterestingInformationSceneLittle BitShotsFadesOur Memories Author:Olivia Wilde
“Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsI CanDifferentEnoughCharacterHappensStuffMemoriesBordersLatterInventingPlausible Author:William T. Vollmann
“Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.” PeopleFeelsHappensAgeFightingForceWaterHurtMemoriesForgetProduceTiredSurfaceSurrenderUnexpectedBubblesSweetness Author:Francesca Marciano
“I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.” KnowsMindFirstsRealEnoughWholeBodyHappensMovingMemoriesBrainMovementLockedVagueRehearsalAccompanyReal Work Author:Angela Lansbury
“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.” PeopleYearsLooksDoeHappensDiesProcessMemoriesFireChildhoodYouthExpectationsWeightExcitingAgingDisappointmentFuelGrayUnusualAttributesExtinctionSplendorIndefinableWistfulness Author:Victor Hugo
“I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.” ThinkingCountryHappensMemoriesWorstDyingKillingWorst Things Author:Bob Kerrey
“Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.” WantImportantHappensMemoriesEventsMy FamilyTragedyDedicatedReunionChileChileans Author:Michelle Bachelet
“Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.” HappensWantedFunStuffMemoriesInstrumentsPsychedelicStuff Happens Author:Alan Palomo
“Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a "down payment" on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens.” LifeFirstsDreamHappensMotivationalLife IsFunMemoriesStepsLaughingRiskAdventureHaving FunLoudReasonableFragileFirst StepsSchedulesLife Is ShortPaymentMake It HappenAudaciousLaugh Out Loud Author:John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio
“Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.” LittlesHappensRememberMemoriesCasesDoubtOddCompelling Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals are sensory based thinkers and I wrote about this in my book, Animals in Translation. That an animal's memory is not in words, they've got to be in pictures - it's very detailed so let's say the animal gets afraid of something - they'll get afraid of something that they're looking at or hearing, the moment the bad thing happens.” BookIdeasWholeMomentsHappensMemoriesAnimalInterestingBehaviorHearingThings HappenBad ThingsThinkerTranslationsReally InterestingSensoryBad Things HappenAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin