I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.
I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't own a television in New York, never read the newspapers, and am old enough to have lived before the Internet, she is a shadowy figure in my memory.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
My memory's bad!
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
I have a photographic memory for numbers.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.
Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.
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.
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
