Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

I have a great memory.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

Computers have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.