Imogen Cunningham Quotes

Memory is the thing you forget with.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

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.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

My memory's pretty much gone.

Short term memory is not good.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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

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

Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

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 was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

I have a great memory.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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

I've always been forgetful.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

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.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?