|
Human memory is an annoying thing. We forget a person’s name seconds
after we have been introduced, yet remember minute details of our
childhood. The trick in creativity is to take charge of it. It is golden
storehouse of stimulation you mine for marvellous stimulation and ideas.
See also
education, effort, genius, knowledge*, learning,
listening, mind, self, subconscious,
thinking*
Quotes
‘A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the
thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most
valuable and should be secured, because they seldom return.’
— Francis Bacon
‘There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.’
— Josh Billings
‘The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although
I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is
the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.’
— George Carlin
‘Never memorize what you can look up in books.’
— Albert Einstein
‘An education isn't how much you have committed to
memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do
know and what you don't.’
— Anatole France
‘A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory
of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there
now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.’
— Sigmund Freud
‘And some men are as ignorant of what
they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.’
— Heraclitus
‘It is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of
honesty that count in research–much more than feats of logic and memory alone.’
— Julian Huxley
‘We can invent only with memory.’
— Alphonse Karr
‘Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too
good.’
— Friedrich Nietzsche
‘Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who
cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’
— George Santayana
‘Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.’
— Richard Whately
| 
