Competition Quote by Joshua Foer

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…

— Joshua Foer

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Memory is imagination pinned down.

— Mason Cooley

I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try to remember…

— Lore Segal

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

— Twyla Tharp

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

— Joshua Foer

Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a…

— Melina Marchetta

Memory belongs to the imagination.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back…

— Elizabeth Loftus

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and…

— Li-Young Lee

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…

— Joshua Foer