Nathan Fillion Quotes

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

My memory's pretty much gone.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

No one can remember more than three points.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Short term memory is not good.

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

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

I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.

My memory's not too good.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

I've got a short memory span.

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.

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'

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

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.

I do think I have a lesser ability to remember facts and names than I have done previously, because you never have to store them; you just look them up again. I could make the same recipe 15 times, but I'll never, ever remember how to make it because I'll just look it up.