Jim Irsay Quotes

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

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

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

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I have a photographic memory.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

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

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

Memory. My poison, my food.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments - if I take a picture of it I can remember so many more details. I think it’s about choosing the exact picture in my head that signifies or symbolizes a moment - almost as if you’re using film. It’s almost archaic.

Memory, the warder of the brain.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

Within the book and volume of thy brain.

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.