Joshua Foer Quotes

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

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• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Change

• Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Great
  • Future
  • Commitment

• No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Me
  • More
  • Memorable

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Change

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Immigration
  • Meaningful

• I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Meaningful

• Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Meaningful

• WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Together
  • Learning
  • Meaningful

• Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Team
  • Meaningful

• Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Attention
  • Meaningful

• It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Meaningful

• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • History
  • Architecture
  • Meaningful

• I want to express what's meaningful. I'm not into gimmicks. I want to make truthful music that's invigorating, maintains a cutting edge, takes on different shades.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Music
  • Different
  • Cutting

• In time, a Martian colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Home
  • War
  • Earth

• You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

  

  James Sinegal
  • Job
  • Mistake

• We've all said, 'No, no, I couldn't do that... ' But actually, you could if you just went, 'You know what? I will... and I shall.' Once you realise that, it's quite wonderful.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • You
  • Know
  • Said

• They're a good team, but it means more because we won the game. It didn't really matter what team came in here tonight, (we) just had to win the game. We had to get off the (streak). Regardless of who it was, we just had to win the basketball game.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Game
  • Team

• I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Happens
  • Election
  • Candidates

• What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Meaningful
  • Memorable
  • Significant