Quotes About Remembering Names

#1. Forget the names because names lie but remember me because when you look at me I remember myself.

Remember me because I will never forget you.

Jordan Weisman

#2. All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Tallulah Bankhead

#3. Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

Ryan Allis

#4. I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

Haruki Murakami

#5. I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.

Joe Gold

#6. We've been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn't. ... I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

Stella Young

#7. If we burn, You will burn with us!

Suzanne Collins

#8. At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Richard Attenborough

#9. While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.

Denis Napthine

#10. My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that.

Gigi Hadid

#11. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

John Daniel Thieme

#12. remembering the long list of names and

Moira Katson

#13. when straws are all you have, you grasp them. There

Stephen King

#14. I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Sam Trammell

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

Fred Allen

#16. The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

Rumi

#18. For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

Mark Nepo

#19. I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.

Dasha Zhukova

#20. Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Diane Ackerman

#21. I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

Maya Lin

#22. As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Joshua Foer