Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.
When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
I’ve written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn’t write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.
I learned to forget everything. To concentrate on my music and thank God for all good moments. Because the positive attracts the positive. You must work, work and work to get the most out of it.
I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems.
The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn’t forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up – just level. It doesn’t take some special dimension to be president.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.
To me, ‘Alors On Danse’ is the definition of clubbing. Because everyone is just trying to forget their problems, but actually, it’s so sad, clubbing. We try to sell happiness in clubs, but you can’t.
You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in ‘GQ’ magazine.
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people’s powers of resistance.
It is impossible to forget a great actor like Sivaji Ganesan.
The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.
Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there’s time left over. But it’s impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.
We can’t forget that there are so many young people who are homeless – and unbelievably vulnerable.
It’s illegal to be gay in Little Rock – this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.
Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. And those of us who are new immigrants and those of us who come from generations of immigrants have to realize we are not that much different from one another.
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold.
Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.
There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, ‘What kind of music do you like to listen to?’ and I said, ‘Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,’ and they literally said, ‘Either forget about that or leave.’
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
My father used to say that even in comedies, you should have a little ‘carry-home message.’ Don’t make it an experience where you forget play as you walk out.
I’ll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, ‘No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don’t work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.’ I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it’s always been about that. But again, people are starting to forget that, people are missing that, and this is where I believe I can help and it’s good for our sport.
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’
Forget sushi, yakitori and tempura, ramen is what really gets the Japanese excited.
The biggest threat to McDonald’s lies within – and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
It’s easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more of a right to be called our offices than our offices.
You obviously don’t really forget how to play the old songs; you just don’t have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you’ve already written and chords you’ve already played.
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we’re born, we’re – all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
It is just not something we need to forget easily, to just bend the knee, to put on our t-shirts, Black Lives Matter, and one week after everyone forgets that.
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
I still think I’m like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That’s still my mentality, so I’ll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
