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- 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.
- 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:…
- How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to…
- 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…
- One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure…
- Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Our Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin