Sam Trammell Quotes

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

The mistakes you made you tend to conveniently forget

You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

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

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

Statesmen remember things selectively.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.