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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• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Animal

• What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Counts
  • Frame

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• 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
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Eyes

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Government
  • Bureaucracy

• 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
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Wonder

• 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
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Focus
  • Constituents

• I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Camera

• I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

  

  Uri Geller
  • God
  • Believe
  • Man

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Invasion

• I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• 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
  • Home
  • Scary
  • Cocky

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Sweetheart
  • Enraged

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

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Party
  • Training
  • Memories