Top Forgetting Quotes
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary Stewart
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
John Gray
We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
Chris Lowe
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Marcus Tullius Cicero All Forgetting Quotes
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
Robert Englund 
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk
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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.
Albert J. Nock
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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.
Evelyn Underhill
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Diane Sawyer
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler
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Marcus Tullius CiceroSamuel ButlerAlexander PopeDavid Herbert LawrenceRobert Louis StevensonCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillChuck PalahniukLaurence J. PeterMignon McLaughlinJohn McCarthyJuliette BinocheSydney SmithSidonie Gabrielle ColetteImmanuel Kant
Iris MurdochWilliam WordsworthMilan KunderaJohannes TaulerDiane SawyerHelen HayesDavid BrinAlbert J. NockPaulo CoelhoRobert EnglundPierre SchaefferRaoul VaneigemArthur KoestlerEvelyn UnderhillChris Lowe
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