Zitat des Tages über Vergessen / Forgetting:
People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.
I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.
Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.
I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.
When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.
People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.