Joshua Foer Quotes
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Joshua Foer
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
Caitlyn Jenner
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten
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I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
Padmasree Warrior
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
Laura Trott
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New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.'
Chris Farley
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The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
Elihu Root
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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
Ezekiel Emanuel
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Malcolm Gladwell
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By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.
Chris Gibson
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Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Joshua Foer
