Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.
For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.
I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]
Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.
I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.
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.
Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
People are machines of forgetfulness
Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
What business does memory have with time?
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
Memory changes as a person matures.
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.
I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.
