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Remember Quotes by Joshua Foer
- 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.
- 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…
- If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
- If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and…
- 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…
- It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To…
- 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…
- ...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.
- 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…
- 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…
More Remember Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster