Eugene Ormandy Quotes

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

I don’t remember the name of the last opponent I have had.

I literally forget everything, and, trust me, that's the best thing that you can have.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Out of sight is out of mind.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

You try and remember, but it never works.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Normal people have nothing to forget.