Joyce Brothers Quotes

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

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.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

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

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

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

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.