"Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious."

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Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.38, Macmillan

Siri Hustvedt

#Memories Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.277, Walter de Gruyter
“Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.”
“Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno”
“More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.”

Source : Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.”
“The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung (and fluke eggs). The fluke enters the snail's digestive gland and gets excreted in sticky slime full of a seething mass of flukes to be drunk by ants as a source of moisture.”

Source : "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.
“You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.”
“Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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