Memory Importance Quotes

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

Memory - the very skin of life.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories