Quotes About Memory Psychology

#1. Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own.
As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.

Erin Morgenstern

#2. Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

American Psychiatric Association

#3. I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such an individual. And yet the only thing about him that has remained is my memory of his ugliness.

Roberto Bolano

#4. Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Steven Pinker

#5. The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

Samuel Armen

#6. Each life unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy and scrappy:
We have not sighed deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired, - been happy.

Robert Browning

#7. Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. Everything is hell now and I deserve it, but I can handle pain.

Katja Millay

#9. 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.

Daniel L. Schacter

#10. Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

George E. Vaillant

#12. I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.

Eric Kandel

#13. If you dwell often on the truth that God is Lord and orders everything, even the frustrations, for our sanctification (Hebrews 12:511; cf. Romans 8:28ff.), you will find yourself able increasingly, even in the most maddening moments, to "keep your cool" - and that is best of all.

J.I. Packer

#14. There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

Lilly Singh

#15. It is important to leave behind a rich and memorable legacy than just accumulated history!

Sanjai Velayudhan

#16. Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

Steven Pinker

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Grace Thompson

#18. Share & enjoy life, the universe & everything

Douglas Adams

#19. My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Roger Klare

#20. 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).

Daniel L. Schacter

#21. In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.

William James

#22. For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.

Howard Schultz

#23. The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Carla H. Krueger

#24. The liar has a bad memory.

Idries Shah

#25. [ ... ] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.

Noam Shpancer

#26. Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.

Abhijit Naskar