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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.


William James

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There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering- and even more difficult.
UNKNOWN Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or pur...
AANCHAL MALHOTRA This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.
BRODI ASHTON But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
TIM O'BRIEN Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.
KELLEY ARMSTRONG Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit b...
DESMOND TUTU The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
ADOLF HITLER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
BRYANT H. MCGILL When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as the...
SUE HUBBELL It is also important that we offer as good of value in our services as is practical. That is the und...
JAMES MURPHY as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
LAURENCE J. PETER Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
DUMAS THE YOUNGER Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our fe...
NEEL BURTON Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
BRIAN TRACY Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Remembering life before the boat makes me incapable of forgetting life after the boat.
THEE AMAZING GRACE Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sens...
JOYCE APPLEBY As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
ANN BRASHARES Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
ELIZABETH BIBESCO Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that...
BJARNE STROUSTRUP In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
MARK WAHLBERG And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Not that any of this is ever easy, remembering it. It is important to me, as a former sergeant in th...
JOYCE MILLER Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
ELIZABETH BIBESCO We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, ver...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remember...
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RON PRINCE It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.
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EVELYN UNDERHILL Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
HELEN REDDY As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of...
DEYTH BANGER As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
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ALBERT J. NOCK Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
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LAWRENCE BOSSIDY Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in ...
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ALBERT J. NOCK You mean old books?"

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PHILIP K. DICK The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands...
LUCIANO BERIO Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding...
NICOLE LYONS Now my time will be spent remembering Rebecca, Michael and James Patrick.
ELIZABETH MOORE The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
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ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ...
D. H. LAWRENCE My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ...
SYDNEY SMITH As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect...
LIONEL TRILLING In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN I don't like remembering.
Remembering makes me feel things.
I don't like to feel things. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlea...
GARY RYAN BLAIR We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
LEONARD WOOLF As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the d...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use ...
BOB NEY Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
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MARIO ANDRETTI The ability to do good quality audio as well as the ability to transmit GPS information simultaneous...
KANWAR CHADHA The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
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