--- title: "13 Remember Quotes By Joshua Foer" description: "13 Remember quotes by Joshua Foer. Plus more from Joshua Foer and more Remember sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/joshua-foer-4147_memory_the-more-we-remember-the-better-we-are-a_1126035.png" --- > [The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/the-more-we-remember-the-better-we-are-at-processing-the-world-and/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/joshua-foer-4147_memory_the-more-we-remember-the-better-we-are-a_1126035.png) > [...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/who-we-are-and-what-we-do-it-is-fundamentally-a-function-of-what-we/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/joshua-foer-4147_function_who-we-are-and-what-we-do-it-is-fundamen_1724110.png) > [If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/if-you-want-to-live-a-memorable-life-you-have-to-be-the-kind-of/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17a/joshua-foer-4147_kind_if-you-want-to-live-a-memorable-life-you_3036765.png) > [Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/our-lives-are-structured-by-our-memories-of-events-event-x-happened/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c8/joshua-foer-4147_bigs_our-lives-are-structured-by-our-memories_2714983.png) > [We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/we-often-talk-about-people-with-great-memories-as-though-it-were-some/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/joshua-foer-4147_about_we-often-talk-about-people-with-great-me_1521317.png) > [As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/as-bad-as-we-are-at-remembering-names-and-phone-numbers-and-word-for/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/joshua-foer-4147_colleagues_as-bad-as-we-are-at-remembering-names-an_2402624.png) > [If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/if-you-were-a-medieval-scholar-reading-a-book-you-knew-that-there-was/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/joshua-foer-4147_book_if-you-were-a-medieval-scholar-reading-a_1753296.jpg) > [We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/we-ve-forgotten-how-to-remember-and-just-as-importantly-we-ve/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/joshua-foer-4147_attention_we-ve-forgotten-how-to-remember-and-just_1127658.png) > [It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/it-is-forgetting-not-remembering-that-is-the-essence-of-what-makes-us/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/joshua-foer-4147_borges_it-is-forgetting-not-remembering-that-is_2837928.png) > [The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/the-sport-of-competitive-memorizing-is-driven-by-a-kind-of-arms-race/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/joshua-foer-4147_arms_the-sport-of-competitive-memorizing-is-d_2122703.png) > [One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/one-trick-known-as-the-journey-method-or-memory-palace-is-to-conjure/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/739/joshua-foer-4147_eye_one-trick-known-as-the-journey-method-or_1181688.png) > [Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/now-more-than-ever-as-the-role-of-memory-in-our-culture-erodes-at-a/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/joshua-foer-4147_ability_now-more-than-ever-as-the-role-of-memory_2198689.jpg) > [When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/when-i-climb-into-my-car-i-enter-my-destination-into-a-gps-device/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/joshua-foer-4147_access_when-i-climb-into-my-car-i-enter-my-dest_2855875.png) ## Other authors on Remember ## More by Joshua Foer > [Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/jonah-lehrer-is-one-of-the-most-talented-explainers-of-science-that/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and read and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/i-don-t-think-i-m-an-exceptionally-bad-reader-i-suspect-that-many/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/life-seems-to-speed-up-as-we-get-older-because-life-gets-less/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [“We can only think about roughly seven things at a time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/we-can-only-think-about-roughly-seven-things-at-a-time/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/with-our-blogs-and-tweets-digital-cameras-and-unlimited-gigabyte-e/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/how-much-are-we-willing-to-lose-from-our-already-short-lives-by/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [“I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/i-came-away-from-the-u-s-memory-championship-eager-to-find-out-how-ed/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/the-ok-plateau-is-that-place-we-all-get-to-where-we-just-stop-getting/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [“One book, printed in the Heart’s own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stacks.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/one-book-printed-in-the-heart-s-own-wax-is-worth-a-thousand-in-the-2/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/languages-are-something-of-a-mess-they-evolve-over-centuries-through/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/invented-languages-have-often-been-created-in-tandem-with-entire/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [“Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/perhaps-as-borges-concludes-in-his-story-it-is-forgetting-not/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/someday-in-the-distant-cyborg-future-when-our-internal-and-external/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/what-makes-things-memorable-is-that-they-are-meaningful-significant/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) > [“As the historian Jocelyn Penny Small pointed out, GODISNOWHERE comes out a lot differently when rendered as GOD IS NOW HERE versus GOD IS…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-foer/as-the-historian-jocelyn-penny-small-pointed-out-godisnowhere-comes/) [Joshua Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-foer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/remember/joshua-foer/#itemlist", "name": "13 Remember Quotes By Joshua Foer", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. 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