“I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that’s sometimes a problem.” -Lou Thesz
“Occasionally I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.” -Sue S. Taylor
“To remember anything, it must be associated with something you already know. You must see it in your mind. Create action and detail to improve the image. It should be like, near, or opposite that which is to be remembered.” -Author Unknown
“When someone hands you their business card, write a short note on the back to help you remember that person.” -Corey Citron
“I love those random memories that make me smile no matter what’s going on in my life right now.” -Author Unknown
“The more often you share what you’ve learned, the stronger that information will become in your memory.” -Steve Brunkhorst
“Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never know what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.” -Pierce Harris
“Improve your memory by doing unforgettable things.” -Author Unknown
“He who does not remember the past is condemned to forget where he parked.” -David Rudnitsky
“Memory is a record of your personal experience. It is a record of trial and error, defeat and success. Past failures will warn you against repeating them.” -Wilfred Peterson
“We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” -Author Unknown
“People who ask me what I’m doing tomorrow probably assume that I even know what day of the week it is.” -Author Unknown
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, and the things you never want to lose.” -Kevin Arnold
“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.” -Edward de Bono (born 1933)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
I don’t know - I forgot my name!
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Amnesia.
Amnesia, who?
Oh, you have it, too . . .
“Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.” -Michio Kushi (1926 - 2014) and Edward Esko (born 1950): “Spiritual Journey” (1994), page 62
“Memories are timeless treasures of the heart.” -Author Unknown
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The following test was supposedly developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. (The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it.)
1. This is this cat.
2. This cat is.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fogey cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down. If you enjoyed this mental exercise, feel free to pass it on to your friends and frenemies.
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“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.” -Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957): “The Nazarene” (1939), page 3
“Occasionally I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.” -Sue S. Taylor
“To remember anything, it must be associated with something you already know. You must see it in your mind. Create action and detail to improve the image. It should be like, near, or opposite that which is to be remembered.” -Author Unknown
“When someone hands you their business card, write a short note on the back to help you remember that person.” -Corey Citron
“I love those random memories that make me smile no matter what’s going on in my life right now.” -Author Unknown
“The more often you share what you’ve learned, the stronger that information will become in your memory.” -Steve Brunkhorst
“Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never know what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.” -Pierce Harris
“Improve your memory by doing unforgettable things.” -Author Unknown
“He who does not remember the past is condemned to forget where he parked.” -David Rudnitsky
“Memory is a record of your personal experience. It is a record of trial and error, defeat and success. Past failures will warn you against repeating them.” -Wilfred Peterson
“We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” -Author Unknown
“People who ask me what I’m doing tomorrow probably assume that I even know what day of the week it is.” -Author Unknown
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, and the things you never want to lose.” -Kevin Arnold
“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.” -Edward de Bono (born 1933)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
I don’t know - I forgot my name!
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Amnesia.
Amnesia, who?
Oh, you have it, too . . .
“Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.” -Michio Kushi (1926 - 2014) and Edward Esko (born 1950): “Spiritual Journey” (1994), page 62
“Memories are timeless treasures of the heart.” -Author Unknown
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Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
The following test was supposedly developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. (The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it.)
1. This is this cat.
2. This cat is.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is fogey cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down. If you enjoyed this mental exercise, feel free to pass it on to your friends and frenemies.
Aa Ba Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm
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Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.” -Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957): “The Nazarene” (1939), page 3
“Lord Dudley was one of the most absentminded men I think I ever met in society. One day he met me in the street, and invited me to meet myself. ‘Dine with me today, dine with me, and I will get Sydney Smith to meet you.’ I admitted the temptation he held out to me, but said I was engaged to meet him elsewhere.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969), page 1
“Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
Jack: My memory is so bad . . .
Jane: How bad is it?
Jack: How bad is what?
“The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys the same good things for the first time.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
Conditions Commonly Associated with Difficulty in Remembering
- Aging
- Being overwhelmed with information
- Lack of interest
- Overwork
- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma
Can you think of anything else?
“We have all forgot more, than we remember.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 5442
“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?” -François de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680): “Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims” (1678), maxim 313
“Some people described as being ‘absent-minded’ actually may be daydreaming or thinking of other things, and are not actually absent-minded, but rather ‘otherwardly-focused.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o’er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret?
-Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 - 1838): “Ethel Churchill; Or, The Two Brides” (1837), Volume II, page 201
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))
My memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also . . . my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. And not only that . . . but my memory’s not as sharp as . . . something . . . I forget . . . what was I saying?
“They say memory is the first thing to go. The second thing to go is memory.” -George Takei
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
“I am so absent minded that sometimes in the middle of a sentence I . . .” -Author Unknown
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” -E. Joseph Cossman (Eli Joseph Cossman (1918 - 2002))
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): “De Oratore,” I, 5
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” -Doug Ivester
“Memories take us back, dreams take us forward.” -Author Unknown
“I am not my memories. I am my dreams.” -Terry Hostetler
“Teach me not the art of remembering, but the art of forgetting, for I remember things I do not wish to remember, but I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.” -Themistocles (524 B.C.E. - 459 B.C.E.): as quoted in Cicero: “De Finibus,” book ii, chapter 32
“‘The method of loci,’ an imaginal technique known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and described by Yates (1966) in her book “The Art of Memory” as well as by Luria (1969). In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject ‘walks’ through these loci in their imagination and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by ‘walking’ through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items. The efficacy of this technique has been well established (Ross and Lawrence 1968, Crovitz 1969, 1971, Briggs, Hawkins and Crovitz 1970, Lea 1975), as is the minimal interference seen with its use.” -John O’Keefe and Lynn Nadel: “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map” (7 December 1978)
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.” -Edith Konecky
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” -Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams III (1911 - 1983)): “The Glass Managerie” (1944)
“Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.” -Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)): “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895)
“A good life is a collection of happy memories.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://www.deniswaitley.com/
The word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. Now if I could just remember that word when I need to . . . what was it again?
“Memory is the thing you forget with.” -Alexander Chase (Stuart Alexander Chase (born 1926)): “Perspectives” (1966)
Three elderly men were at the doctor’s office for a memory test. The doctor asked the first man, “What is three times three?” “274,” came the reply. The doctor rolled his eyes and looked up at the ceiling, and said to the second man, “It’s your turn. What is three times three?” “Tuesday,” replied the second man. The doctor shook his head sadly, then asked the third man, “Okay, your turn. What are three times three?” “Nine,” said the third man. “That’s great!” said the doctor. “How did you get that?” “Simple,” he said, “just subtract 274 from Tuesday.”
“Age doesn’t always make you as forgetful as you may have been led to believe. It’s really having far too many worthless facts to remember that makes you forgetful.” -Author Unknown
Three sisters, who were 92, 94, and 96 years of age, lived in a house together. One night the 96 year old drew a bath. She put her foot in and paused. She yelled to the other sisters, “Was I getting in or out of the bath?” The 94-year-old yelled back, “I don’t know. I’ll come up and see.” She started up the stairs and paused. “Was I going up the stairs or down?” The 92 year old was sitting at the kitchen table having tea and listening to her sisters. She shook her head and said, “I sure hope I never get that forgetful, knock on wood.” She then yelled, “I’ll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who’s at the door.”
“Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” -Ugo Eze
“What isn’t remembered never happened.” -Lain
“Memory is the mental function that tells a man his wedding anniversary was yesterday.” -Author Unknown
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” -Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966): “The Heart’s Domain” (1919)
“One of the great mysteries of life is how a person can leave his or her car keys in the refrigerator.” -Author Unknown
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
When time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem’ry of the past will stay
And half our joys renew.
-Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852): “Juvenile Poems” (1799 - 1804), ‘Song’
“We are our memories.” -Author Unknown
“You never know when you’re making a memory.” -Rickie Lee Jones
“Sometimes, I sit and think of all the memories I’ve made and smile. Then I smile even more at the thought of memories yet to be made.” -Author Unknown
“God gave His children memory that in life’s garden there might be June roses in December.” -Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy (1883 - 1929): “Roses in December” poem
“The best thing about memories . . . is making them.” -Author Unknown
We are MFOL! . . . reminding you to never forget, even for a moment, how truly amazing you are . . .
“Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
Jack: My memory is so bad . . .
Jane: How bad is it?
Jack: How bad is what?
“The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys the same good things for the first time.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
Conditions Commonly Associated with Difficulty in Remembering
- Aging
- Being overwhelmed with information
- Lack of interest
- Overwork
- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma
Can you think of anything else?
“We have all forgot more, than we remember.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 5442
“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?” -François de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680): “Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims” (1678), maxim 313
“Some people described as being ‘absent-minded’ actually may be daydreaming or thinking of other things, and are not actually absent-minded, but rather ‘otherwardly-focused.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o’er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret?
-Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 - 1838): “Ethel Churchill; Or, The Two Brides” (1837), Volume II, page 201
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))
My memory is not as sharp as it used to be. Also . . . my memory is not as sharp as it used to be. And not only that . . . but my memory’s not as sharp as . . . something . . . I forget . . . what was I saying?
“They say memory is the first thing to go. The second thing to go is memory.” -George Takei
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
“I am so absent minded that sometimes in the middle of a sentence I . . .” -Author Unknown
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” -E. Joseph Cossman (Eli Joseph Cossman (1918 - 2002))
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): “De Oratore,” I, 5
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” -Doug Ivester
“Memories take us back, dreams take us forward.” -Author Unknown
“I am not my memories. I am my dreams.” -Terry Hostetler
“Teach me not the art of remembering, but the art of forgetting, for I remember things I do not wish to remember, but I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.” -Themistocles (524 B.C.E. - 459 B.C.E.): as quoted in Cicero: “De Finibus,” book ii, chapter 32
“‘The method of loci,’ an imaginal technique known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and described by Yates (1966) in her book “The Art of Memory” as well as by Luria (1969). In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject ‘walks’ through these loci in their imagination and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by ‘walking’ through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items. The efficacy of this technique has been well established (Ross and Lawrence 1968, Crovitz 1969, 1971, Briggs, Hawkins and Crovitz 1970, Lea 1975), as is the minimal interference seen with its use.” -John O’Keefe and Lynn Nadel: “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map” (7 December 1978)
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.” -Edith Konecky
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” -Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams III (1911 - 1983)): “The Glass Managerie” (1944)
“Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.” -Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)): “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895)
“A good life is a collection of happy memories.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://www.deniswaitley.com/
The word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. Now if I could just remember that word when I need to . . . what was it again?
“Memory is the thing you forget with.” -Alexander Chase (Stuart Alexander Chase (born 1926)): “Perspectives” (1966)
Three elderly men were at the doctor’s office for a memory test. The doctor asked the first man, “What is three times three?” “274,” came the reply. The doctor rolled his eyes and looked up at the ceiling, and said to the second man, “It’s your turn. What is three times three?” “Tuesday,” replied the second man. The doctor shook his head sadly, then asked the third man, “Okay, your turn. What are three times three?” “Nine,” said the third man. “That’s great!” said the doctor. “How did you get that?” “Simple,” he said, “just subtract 274 from Tuesday.”
“Age doesn’t always make you as forgetful as you may have been led to believe. It’s really having far too many worthless facts to remember that makes you forgetful.” -Author Unknown
Three sisters, who were 92, 94, and 96 years of age, lived in a house together. One night the 96 year old drew a bath. She put her foot in and paused. She yelled to the other sisters, “Was I getting in or out of the bath?” The 94-year-old yelled back, “I don’t know. I’ll come up and see.” She started up the stairs and paused. “Was I going up the stairs or down?” The 92 year old was sitting at the kitchen table having tea and listening to her sisters. She shook her head and said, “I sure hope I never get that forgetful, knock on wood.” She then yelled, “I’ll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who’s at the door.”
“Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” -Ugo Eze
“What isn’t remembered never happened.” -Lain
“Memory is the mental function that tells a man his wedding anniversary was yesterday.” -Author Unknown
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” -Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966): “The Heart’s Domain” (1919)
“One of the great mysteries of life is how a person can leave his or her car keys in the refrigerator.” -Author Unknown
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
When time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem’ry of the past will stay
And half our joys renew.
-Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852): “Juvenile Poems” (1799 - 1804), ‘Song’
“We are our memories.” -Author Unknown
“You never know when you’re making a memory.” -Rickie Lee Jones
“Sometimes, I sit and think of all the memories I’ve made and smile. Then I smile even more at the thought of memories yet to be made.” -Author Unknown
“God gave His children memory that in life’s garden there might be June roses in December.” -Geoffrey Anketell Studdert-Kennedy (1883 - 1929): “Roses in December” poem
“The best thing about memories . . . is making them.” -Author Unknown
We are MFOL! . . . reminding you to never forget, even for a moment, how truly amazing you are . . .
