Best Joshua Foer Sayings
- To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes. Fail
- The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can… Better
- Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. Built
- Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older. Get Older
- A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. Cannot Sustain
- ...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember. Function
- Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention? Already Short
- The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember… Arms
- We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great… Attention
- Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you… Ability
- No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more… Any
- Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to… According
- There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us… Across
- Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that… All
- Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading… Book
- 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, ever… Ages