Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

Eleanora Duse

I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul.

Deepak Chopra

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

Deepak Chopra

Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

Deepak Chopra

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

Deepak Chopra

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

Deepak Chopra

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

Deepak Chopra

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Deepak Chopra

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

Deepak Chopra

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

Deepak Chopra

When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

Deepak Chopra

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

Dionne Warwick

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.

David Bowie

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

So many people in Murray that are older have memories of this house. I have a lot of work to do.

She was just talking about the old memories we had at the Super D drug store where we used to work and how I made her laugh.

Eden Sher

Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.

Edgar Degas

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Edgar Cayce

Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.

Ed Sheeran

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way I know you will still love me the same.

Ed Sheeran

We keep this love in a photograph We made these memories for ourselves Where our eyes are never closing Hearts are never broken And time's forever frozen still

Eben Moglen

You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to- face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory-both how it works and what it remembers In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

Earl Hines

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

Elizabeth Loftus

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,

Elizabeth Loftus

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Elizabeth Loftus

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

Elizabeth Loftus

Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

Elizabeth Loftus

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Elizabeth Loftus

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

Edwin Land

[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.

Edouard Manet

In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

Edmund White

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.