"If you can't remember the small things,..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
More by Mike Tyson
“That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.”
“He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.”
“I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.”
More on Memory
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”
“The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
More on Mind
“Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.”
“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing”