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Memories Quotes by Joshua Foer
- We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually…
- As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
- To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not…
- The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form…
- Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most…
- Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture:…
- 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I…
- The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute.…
- Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
- Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other…
- 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 the…
- We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as…
- Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
- Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to…
- I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what…
- If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave…
- Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the…
- One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it…
- Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first…
- Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,…
- To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits…
- Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use…
- What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so…
- Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it…
- Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
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- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu