Ann Patchett Quotes

We have all forgot more than we remember.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

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.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

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

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

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.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

I've always been forgetful.

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

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.

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

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.

I was frustrated I couldn't remember stuff, and I got real upset. It was driving me nuts.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

You don't just forget things overnight.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I don't remember anything from college.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.