Sasha Grey Quotes

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren't true.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

Statesmen remember things selectively.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

People always remember the second half.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

I think people hear the question they want to hear.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

Some people see what they want to see.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.