Jim McMahon Quotes

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

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've always been forgetful.

My memory's not too good.

I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

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

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

My memory is not that good anymore.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

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

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

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.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

I've got a short memory span.

You don't just forget things overnight.