Schacter Daniel Quotes & Sayings

As you can see," I gestured to each of my appendages, "I am just fine. No need to worry." I almost added "your pretty little head" but I wasn't in the mood to pick up my teeth from the shag carpet. — J.A. Kazimer

My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity. — Andrew Davidson

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. — Joanna Lumley

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use. — Janine Benyus

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression). — Daniel L. Schacter

What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality. The world as you see it right here, right now, is reality, regardless of what the scientists say it might be. That's the way John sees it. But the world as revealed by its scientific discoveries is also reality, regardless of how it may appear, — Robert M. Pirsig

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future. — Daniel Schacter

Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules — Sunday Adelaja

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be. — Daniel L. Schacter

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation. — Alistair Begg

Hephaestus glowered up at us. "I didn't make you, did I?"
Uh," Annabeth said, "no, sir."
Good," the god grumbled. "Shoddy workmanship. — Rick Riordan

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything. — Carl Icahn

The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the civilian population with thrills and self-justification. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. — Molly Ivins

Brighter shades of blue and red than he had ever seen. The — Brandon Mull

I have spoken of analogy as a constructive method. This, however, should be used only for suggestion, for it is most dangerous. Often we use an analogy and are quite unaware of it. Thus many social and political thinkers have called society an "organism," and have proceeded to deal with it as if it were a large animal. They have thought not in terms of the actual phenomena under consideration, but in terms of the analogy. In so far as the terms of the analogy were more concrete than those of the phenomena, their thinking has been made easier. But no analogy will ever hold good throughout, and consequently these thinkers have often fallen into error. — Henry Hazlitt

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. — Daniel Schacter

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. — Daniel Schacter