Forgetting Quotations

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always on the side of those who are being whipped. I've always criticized U.S. foreign policy for forgetting that the United States should defend those who need to be defended. I would object to U.S. policy if it supported Saddam Hussein, and I have always criticized the United States for supporting military regimes in Latin America.

People were relieved that (Nokia) met the lowered guidance. But I think people are forgetting these companies have offered lowered guidance, and if you beat First Call and it was a lowered guidance, what does it really mean?

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.

We're just forgetting about (last season) and moving on. The kids have something to prove. They have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder.

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.

People are forgetting he took us through some pretty rocky times,

I think this team has done a good job, even when we were losing last year, of forgetting about the game before, ... This team is really resilient. Right now, we're just building on success.

I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!

I think the attorney general has it exactly backwards, apparently forgetting that we live in a free society,

I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others.

I think everybody looks at that, and we were doing that for a while. But I think what's important is that we just worry about ourselves, and hopefully things will take care of themselves and will work out. But I think we've really switched gears, this team has, I know offensively, forgetting what the other teams like the Giants and Dallas, who they all play, watching the scoreboards. We're really more focused on ourselves, which I think is a good thing.

I think people are forgetting that we have a growing population that we need to inform.

I think that must be the dumbest one I've ever heard. I mean, every year you hear more and more rumors and some of them are so out there that after a while you just start forgetting about them.

I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

We've done a couple run-throughs (today), and I keep forgetting my lines. We're a little late to this, so the script's not finished.

We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over.

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

We can wait to see what happens, but perhaps he's bitten off more than he can chew, ... They've used the value of Hughes effectively to benefit other shareholders. I don't think there's any consensus among analysts that GM is forgetting about shareholders and should be taken over by raiders.

That's three shutouts against quality teams that are in the playoffs. It proves to ourselves that we are a good hockey team. I think we started forgetting that a little bit.

We'll start cranking up probably next week. The common mistakes are mostly math errors and (people) forgetting to sign their returns.

To the victims and people out there, our hearts are going out to them. We're not forgetting about them.

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

Critics tend to talk about subsidies and look at Fannie and Freddie in isolation, forgetting that banks and thrifts are also subsidized,

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

With such an incredible family, it's no wonder that she is like she is. I keep forgetting how young she is. She is so mature.

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

You've really got to pay attention to what you're doing out there. I paid the price on the back nine for being too aggressive a couple of times and forgetting where I was and not playing the smart shot.

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

You need to do what's best for you, not forgetting to take your partner's opinion into account. But the individual self matters most.

This is an evolving kind of situation, and what might have been appropriate a week ago might not be appropriate this week. Having Ellen DeGeneres as the host, who is from New Orleans, sets the tone right away that there will be a balance. One of the first things Ellen said to me after Katrina hit was that we still need to make people laugh without forgetting about what's going on and not in any way taking away from its meaning.

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

In all my years I've never had a team that's had this much talent in five players. But they seem to see a game out of a telescope instead of binoculars. They don't see the whole floor. They're penetrating when they should be passing. They're passing it when they should be penetrating. They're forgetting the role of every player, and that's to communicate with one another.

In a three week race, at the end there is always a high level, and more since we are in the UCI-ProTour. Maybe it's not the same level of the Tour, where all teams bring his nine riders at 100 percent level, but the average is very high. Maybe there are no so many names as other years, but the level continues being high. Here we have Mancebo, Aitor Gonzalez, Landis, Mayo, Pereiro and, in general, teams like Comunidad Valenciana, without forgetting that there are always foreigners whom you don't count on and then they ride very well.

I'm very happy for the fans. I wanted to do it at home. During the ovation, I wanted to run out to right field, forgetting that I was the DH.

If you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt, whether you're in spring training or the World Baseball Classic. But I want everybody to understand, we're not going out there only trying to win and forgetting about our players. We have a responsibility to the organizations that are allowing the players to play, and we're also going to try to get them ready for the regular season.

I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.

I memorize the names of the winners. I'm pretty good at forgetting the rest. And the vote count ... it's one of those things I don't really want to remember.

The battle fronts are the Supreme Court, the presidency, the Senate, the House, all the state legislatures, ... That's where most people think these battles are being won. To me, they're forgetting where the battle should be won: houses of worship. That's where indoctrination should take place, not in the halls of Congress.

The biggest mistake people make is forgetting to report interest on a savings account.

Not forgetting is not enough. We must stand up and speak out when atrocities occur.

It's never easy as long as I've been doing it, massaging the mind as opposed to getting the body in shape. We've always talked about having a funeral for yourself and forgetting about it. Flush it.

It's tough because I'm the captain of the ship, and let's face it, it starts with me. But I think, forgetting this season for a moment, we've had more pluses than minuses.

I have worked on my striking, without forgetting my physique. I look good, Even to myself

I look at it as part of the same kind of mind-set that looks at the tourist industry as paramount, and therefore anything that might offend tourists, the powers that be don't want. So they pass these things sometimes forgetting the fact we're not in a private Disneyland here.

It was a bizarre tour in terms of results but, forgetting what was going on in the background, it was a fairly standard cricket tour,

It's confusing. You watch the guys in front of you but you're also watching the guys behind you. You get here, and you keep forgetting you're actually out front (by a game and a half) in one of these situations. It's definitely a weird situation to be in.

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

You worry about your timing and you worry about your wind and stuff like that. I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team. So that's my only thing.

The children need to have representation in their schools. You're forgetting about black children, trying to find loopholes. I'm not a lawyer, but I know what's right and wrong. If it was the other way around, you'd be fussing.

The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pillars

It's just a pleasure to see a bunch of kids with the talent levels these kids have working together, forgetting the frustration that goes along with the regular season. Tonight they were together, working on the same team.

It's like a broken record - mental breakdowns, people getting tired and forgetting their assignments. We just have to continue to stay together.

It's a hard period we're going through at the moment. Now it's a matter of forgetting this, we have to learn from it and we must do things better. Football is a strange game and your fortunes can turn very quickly.

It's a big issue for me. We're youth and we see older people forgetting what happened in Vietnam. We don't want that to happen to us. I'm 17 years old, I'll be 18 next month; I can go over to Iraq and get a gun shot at me. I think I have the right to voice my opinion out here.

We missed eight free throws in the first half. Man, oh man, oh man, oh man. I'll have a hard time forgetting about this one.

He's made a lot of progress from where we were with him in the spring. He's running the offense. He has control. He knows what's going on. Things aren't going 100 miles an hour for him. He's not forgetting calls, forgetting signals. That's all part of the process.

I do think that a lot of Americans are saying that in pursuing his perfectly legitimate mission to protect us from terrorism, is the president forgetting some of the safeguards that we would hope he would not forget.

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

I've never been in a Hollywood fight or feud. I have the most wonderful memory for forgetting things.

In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life.