“In the immortal words of Maya Angelou … people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.”
Source: Inferno
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Sherrilyn Kenyon752
Novelist 1965Related quotes
“A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.”
Viggo Mortensen (1958) American actor
On why more American actors don't take roles in foreign-language films as he does, The New York Times, " Bilingualism Steps Into a Leading Role http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/movies/viggo-mortensen-and-other-actors-take-roles-in-foreign-films.html" (March 31, 2013).
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
“Never forget what you would rather forget!”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.”
Henning Mankell book The Troubled Man
Source: The Troubled Man
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business" in page=113.