Daniel Schacter Quotes

#1. I was not unhappy, except one day at a time. - Author: Marcel Proust

#2. Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. - Author: Daniel Schacter

#3. Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression). - Author: Daniel L. Schacter

#4. Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is. - Author: Mark Twain

#5. I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier. - Author: Elizabeth Holmes

#6. A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself. - Author: Charles M. Schulz

#7. Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be. - Author: Daniel L. Schacter

#8. Just because I understand does not mean I agree. - Author: Carlos Wallace

#9. Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future. - Author: Daniel Schacter

#10. Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. - Author: Daniel Schacter

#11. If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order. - Author: Penn Jillette