“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPastParentMemoriesPhotographBunchRecallsCharmingOur PastUnclesAuntYour PastOur MemoriesDrawersDisconnectedPostmanOld Photographs Author:Gail Zappa
“I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.” ThinkingWayShouldKindMeanWholeRememberFatherInterestRealizingMemoriesInterestingMemoirRealizationRecollectionInteresting Ways Author:Marco Roth
“I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars or the whole city, and I'm putty, I'm melting in your arms. Then I think having a romantic night, getting a little dressed up, but don't kill yourself trying to force the romance. A bunch of little subtle changes that will make the day more special will amount to a big awesome day in your memory. I like little breadcrumbs along the way. Draw it out!” ThinkingWayTryingLittlesI CanWholeBigsRomanceNightForceStarsMemoriesViewsCitiesSpecialArmsAmountDrawsBunchLandscapeSubtleTake MeOur MemoriesMeltingSuckerDressed UpKilling YourselfHigh Places Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.” WayLittlesIdeasDifferentRealFilmMemoriesBrainComplexesSnowDifferent ThingsAccurateGlobesInterconnectionRedundancy Author:Pete Docter
“However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingReasonStoriesCertainMemoriesCasesTakenNeededCourtReason WhyTestimonySusceptibleUnreliableEyewitnessesCourt Cases Author:Pete Docter
“It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work.” WayYearsHas BeensIdeasMightFilmCoursesMemoriesComplexesRecallsMight Have BeenRepresentingVery Cool Author:Pete Docter
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.” KnowsWayRealCharacterChristianValuesMemoriesTraditionFlavorHistory And Memory Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.” IfsWayNeedsMemoriesForgetBrainLike YouFitVariousOpeningFilesCabinetsDrawersOpening UpFilingFiling Cabinet Author:Shelby Harris
“And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shooting with the Muppets, and taking that and making a show that's really an expansion of that and presenting a show that's all that.” WayDoneWholeShowsFunMemoriesTakenDadMy DadShootingExpansionVisitingPresentingMuppet Author:Brian Henson
“If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsPlayWholeLawFunStuffSoundMemoriesRecordsBecomingMessComposerTransformedLayersConductorCopyrightCollagesCopyright Law Author:DJ Spooky
“When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.” WayKindDifferentEndsSoundMemoriesBecomingHappeningsDifferent WaysGetting OldSamplingOld Memories Author:DJ Spooky
“I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.” WayMadeIdeasMemoriesInterestingExaminingEdited Author:James Franco
“Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory.” KnowsWayKindPlayUseDreamSongMemoriesKnow HowApproachTheaterRelyReviewsJordanCover SongsDream Theater Author:John Petrucci
“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.” WayGivingMemoriesConditionsContinuityPredictable Author:Deepak Chopra
“Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.” WayLanguageMemoriesNumbersEmotionSadnessTvsDespairIntelligentScreensDistributionAccusedChimpanzeesSpatialSign LanguageHappiness Sadness Author:Jane Goodall
“Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.” WayHandsMemoriesTeachingCreatingToolsBridgesReachingReach OutConnectingEngraved Author:Dani Shapiro
“When I came on board, it was halfway through his [Frank Sinatra] 72nd year, and when he did his last show he was gaining on 80. He knew it, the audience knew it, and there was never any attempt to conceal such a thing. His vision wasn't what it had once been. His hearing wasn't. His memory was fading. He knew these things. He was very much in need of help, and I was so happy to be able, in a small way, to render that help.” WayNeedsYearsHelpingShowsAbleLastsMemoriesVisionAudienceHearingBoardsFrankHalfwayFading Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.
“Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.” WayDifferentMemoriesPopulationPhysicistInconvenientShort Memory Book:Science is a sacred cow Source: Science is a sacred cow
“I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that's always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person.” WayWritingPersonsSometimesCharacterMemoriesGoneEtcPaceBiographiesTextbooksAssemblingFavorite Foods Author:Teddy Wayne
“As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I was not playing the way I had hoped. And it was obviously a very emotional day that last day, but it was a great memory for me and I have had a lot of great memories at Oakmont over the years.” WayYearsWellsLastsMemoriesEmotionalOccasionsLast DayGreat Memories Author:Arnold Palmer