Procedural Memory Quotes & Sayings

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal. — Gerald Edelman

Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' - which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was - losing myself in these imaginary worlds. — Stewart O'Nan

He stared at me as if I had a really good book stuck to my face. — C.D. Reiss

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. — Idries Shah

So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality."
"They saw her shoot," says Peeta with a smile. "Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself."
"You're that good?" Haymitch asks me. — Suzanne Collins

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere."
Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know."
Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature. — Charles Dickens

Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee. — Edward Abbey

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics. — Sophia Amoruso

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way. — Stephen King

You have never been married? You are a spinster?" Diana laughed. "Why, she can't be above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she. "I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No. — Charlotte Bronte