Short-Term Memory Quotes

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.

You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

They always remember the last thing you do. They don't remember the things before.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

The public will forget the government before it is born.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

My memory's bad!

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.