Top 105 Forgetting Quotes

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

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.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I’m in.

In order for exercise to be effective and fun, especially for me as a middle aged woman, its about forgetting that youre exercising.

I do believe states’ rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while – like, 150 years or so. I’m professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.

When I’m writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can’t read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

I felt that I was forgetting about all of the stresses when I was acting, and that’s when I started thinking more seriously about acting.

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

Training camp is a grind, and it truly is all about embracing that grind and coming out here and forgetting about the heat and working to get better every single day.

I am very proud to look back and see all that I’ve been through, without forgetting my identity and always staying humble.

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.

If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.

I know I have been lucky in business, and I am keen now to spread goodwill to others, of course not forgetting that very often, you make your own luck by making use of every opportunity.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.

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.

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

The only thing I’ve settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

I’m very good at forgetting people.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

The error that many vegans make is forgetting that our food has novelty value. Non-vegans think our food is awful, but are fascinated by the prospect of something vegan being delicious. They want to disprove it.

I think I’m really good at forgetting about golf when I’m off the golf course.

I’m just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I’ve told it already.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, ‘We’re Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.’ I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I’m literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It’s a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.

It’s all about being comfortable, forgetting there’s a microphone in front of you.

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.

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

We’ve never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It’s been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they’re always the enemy.

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn’t like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one’s life seem disorganized.

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

My earliest memory is my parents forgetting my fourth birthday. My dad looked up from reading the paper and went, ‘Oh my God!’ So we went out, and I chose a red scooter.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

There’s a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

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

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It’s passing through you more than you’re creating it. You’re not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

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.

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.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It’s no good forgetting that they’re there.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nobody ever told me, ‘Art is this.’ This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.