Forgetting Quotes

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

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

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.