Memory Effect Quotes

The past is a present force.

Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

I think people take for granted the success of the original content at A&E Networks and in building brands. People have selective memory on how long that takes.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Cinema has a greater impact as it leaves a long lasting memory. Television, on the other hand, is also good but requires a lot of time.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.