Peter Kay Quotes

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for so much.

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.