Top 85 Quotes About Short Memory
#1. Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory.
Jojo Moyes
#4. I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
Reese Witherspoon
#5. We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.
Tariq Ali
#7. I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
#8. I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
Diane Lane
#9. The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.
Kevin Rahm
#10. It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.
Mark Bittman
#11. Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on ...
Gabrielle Reece
#12. I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.
Lindsey Vonn
#13. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson
#14. I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
Aubrey McClendon
#15. If you're a black Christian, you have a real short memory.
Chris Rock
#16. If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
Gary Weiss
#18. You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.
Mac O'Grady
#19. You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business
along with the short memory of our readers.
Steve Forbes
#20. I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
Paula Poundstone
#22. There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
#23. Kahnawake
November 1704
Temperature 44 degrees
"They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes."
Sometimes! thought Mercy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#24. Our life is just as long or short as our memory, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.
Neel Burton
#25. I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.
Adam Brody
#26. I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.
Paula Poundstone
#27. Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
Brassai
#28. Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
Ann Brashares
#29. When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.
Kevin Warwick
#30. The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.
Greg Maddux
#32. People say life is short.
life's not short - it's long.
the memory of a human being: that's what's short.
Julio Alexi Genao
#33. You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.
Randy Carlyle
#34. Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.
Vicki Covington
#35. Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.
Ellis
#36. Thus higher-order memorization is a multistage process, involving the transfer of perceptions, or perceptual syntheses, from short-term to long-term memory. It is just such a transfer that fails to occur in people with temporal lobe damage.
Oliver Sacks
#37. The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
Diane Lane
#38. That pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
Vita Sackville-West
#39. One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.
Daniel Goleman
#40. My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.
Deval Patrick
#41. For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.
Stant Litore
#42. Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#43. In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.
Nicholas Negroponte
#45. Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!!
Richard Madeley
#46. We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.
Arto Lindsay
#48. There are basically two types of memory which can either be long or short term.
Marc Collingwood
#49. I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
Rufus Sewell
#50. Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.
Steve Mariucci
#51. Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.
Steven Magee
#52. The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.
Benjamin Graham
#53. If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.
Eric Kandel
#55. Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.
D.E. Stevenson
#56. I scrub the memory from my mind. There is no past. There is no future. Love, if that's what it is, is as short as it is eternal.
Chloe Thurlow
#57. I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.
Eric Kandel
#58. I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
Benjamin Franklin
#59. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#61. Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
Frank Herbert
#62. Life is a flower in the garden of humanity. It blooms for a short time and then slowly it disappears and becomes a memory on the canvas of infinite time.
Debasish Mridha
#64. He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.
James Carl Nelson
#65. I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs ... often on short notice!
John C. McGinley
#66. the key to improved mental performance of almost any sort is the development of mental structures that make it possible to avoid the limitations of short-term memory and deal effectively with large amounts of information at once.
Anders Ericsson
#67. A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.
Roger Ascham
#68. You know some minutes warn you they're going to be mighty short and you'd better take a snapshot of 'em while you can. ("Golden Baby")
Alice Brown
#69. I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
Pat Bowlen
#70. Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.
Gore Vidal
#71. It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)
Bill Bernico
#72. Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.
Jennifer Niven
#73. Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD!
Stephen Richards
#74. There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two to hold the memory?
Stephanie Ye
#75. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
Dorothy Gilman
#76. I dreamt-' he began, and stopped short. It was too complex to be put into words. There was the dream itself, and there was a memory connected with it that had swum into his mind in the few seconds after waking.
George Orwell
#77. I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.
Rachel Zoe
#78. He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Samuel Johnson
#79. Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
#80. Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.
David Letterman
#81. Kiss me goodbye now. And make it impressive. I have issues with my short term memory. - Lily, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#82. Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
Will Self
#83. The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
Norman Mailer
#84. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.
Jennifer Arnett
#85. The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection.
Mortimer J. Adler
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