Candace Bushnell Quotes

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

It's amazing how quickly things start to change when you haven't slept. Your memory goes. Physically, you don't feel well. Emotionally, you're all over the place - you know, if you miss one night of sleep. You can only imagine five nights of not sleeping. I was in an alternate state of reality.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.