Quotes on Recollection

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it.... It is true that recollection has several degr

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No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

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I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

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To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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It's scary defending a championship, from my recollection of the last time I won state. I told the kids that every team we play is going to give us their best game.

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Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.

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This is huge. In my recollection, no school in B.C. Has hosted the nationals since we did it in 1986. That's probably because it's such an enormous undertaking. It's a pricey thing and I'm really pleased that the college stepped up and supported our team. But we have established our program as one of the top ones in Canada. They know the product that we put on the floor is going to be pretty decent.

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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Right after September 11, we went to England, and I was a mess,.. I was really depressed... I came home and settled down and got my head on straight. Before I knew it, I wanted to make another record and I had these songs. I remember saying, 'When did I write this?'.. I had no recollection.

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I have no recollection of the mirror thing. The thing I remember most was her sticking her head out the doorway, and she had this huge smile. That was it. I knew that she was going to be the one.

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