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You Quotes by Joshua Foer
- If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
- Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my…
- Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my…
- 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…
- Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a…
- 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…
- Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide