James Russell Lowell Quotes

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Memory feeds imagination.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Memory changes as a person matures.

For as long as I can remember, I've had memories.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Attention is the material I work with.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.