Schacter Memory Quotes & Sayings

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it. — Henry Miller

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

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

Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay. — Frank McCourt

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand. — Jane Smiley

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

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

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 devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album. — Victor LaValle

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Anonymous

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen — Rowan Coleman