Pat Bowlen Quotes

I have a terrible memory.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I have a really terrible memory.

My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

I can't remember names and things.

My memory's not too good.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

I've got a short memory span.

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.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.

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

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

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

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

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.