Quotes On Selective Memory

#1. Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.

James Luceno

#2. We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

Frank Luntz

#3. Selective memory is one of the chief sins of the old, and I don't have time for it.

Stephen King

#4. Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

Elizabeth Peters

#5. Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C.S. Lewis

#6. My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

Eric Clapton

#7. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Terry Gross

#8. The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Blake Morrison

#9. Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

Nigel Hamilton

#10. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Richard Paul Evans

#11. Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Henry A. Wallace

#13. You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

Henry Louis Gates

#14. Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine - tense, absorbed, single-minded.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Amy Neftzger

#16. Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

Rain

#17. Because his memory is so selective, he has no scars from prior experience, said Vinny.

Michael Lewis

#18. I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.

Holly Madison

#19. I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Santiago Cabrera

#20. Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.

Jacques Chirac

#21. I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie

Holly Hurd

#22. crossed the dining room and

Francoise Bourdin

#23. I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Virgilia Peterson

#24. The selective activation of compatible memories explains anchoring: the high and the low numbers activate different sets of ideas in memory. The estimates of annual temperature draw on these biased samples of ideas and are therefore biased as well.

Daniel Kahneman

#25. What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

Alanis Morissette

#26. Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

Phylicia Rashad

#27. The Bible teaches that you have three enemies ... the devil ... the world ... the flesh.

Billy Graham

#28. Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Vita Sackville-West

#29. Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

Donald Miller

#30. Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Fay Weldon

#31. She wonders if memory is little more than this: a series of erasure and perfected selections.

Cristina Garcia

#32. I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

Desmond Tutu

#33. To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Claude Simon

#34. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves

Dathan Auerbach