Joshua Foer Quotes

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

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• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • You
  • Washington

• There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Kids
  • Team

• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Live
  • Society

• I love apple juice.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Love
  • Apple
  • Juice

• I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Home
  • Best

• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Rehearsing

• We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Believe
  • Single
  • New

• If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are - then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith - from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion - from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Deep

• Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Opinion

• I take a lot of naps.

  

  Alice Ripley

• If nothing else, I have money.

  

  Bjork
  • Money

• Stage fright is my worst problem.

  

  Andrea Bocelli

• I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

  

  Jimmy Iovine

• We need all to remember that the coalition ... decided to take military action to remove the Saddam regime because of our very clear assessment that Saddam Hussein and his regime were in clear material breach of U.N. Security Council resolution 1441 and many preceding that, and that therefore we did have to face the serious consequences which that resolution made clear would follow,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Remember
  • Action
  • Serious

• When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

  

  William James
  • Action
  • Inspiration
  • Emotion

• There is clearly going to be a lot of debate and a lot of compromises before we get a final product.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Product
  • Debate
  • Final

• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

  

  Joshua Foer
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