Joshua Foer Quotes

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

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• Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Might
  • Truck

• MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Leadership

• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Literature
  • Hands
  • Doe

• Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Light
  • Matter
  • Stronger

• Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Dating
  • Rumors
  • Matt Damon

• In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Money
  • Done
  • May

• [Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Water
  • Texas
  • Rivers

• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Game

• Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Interesting
  • Judgment
  • Journalism

• The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Idea
  • Remove
  • Locked

• What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Marriage
  • Choice
  • Hear

• He is called the horse.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Horse
  • Called

• I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Stories
  • Roles
  • Chocolate

• In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

  

  Alvin Francis Poussaint
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Land

• It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Commerce

• It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Sleep
  • Rhythm
  • Collapse

• We can now develop methods and experiences that utilize the brain’s own natural neuroplasticity to help survivors feel fully alive in the present and move on with their lives. There are fundamentally three avenues: 1) top down, by talking, (re-) connecting with others, and allowing ourselves to know and understand what is going on with us, while processing the memories of the trauma; 2) by taking medicines that shut down inappropriate alarm reactions, or by utilizing other technologies that change the way the brain organizes information, and 3) bottom up: by allowing the body to have experiences that deeply and viscerally contradict the helplessness, rage, or collapse that result from trauma. Which one of these is best for any particular survivor is an empirical question. Most people I have worked with require a combination.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experiences
  • Develop
  • Collapse

• I think we all realized what was at stake. We had talked about it all week, the big ballgame for us and for them there was a lot at stake. There was a lot riding on it and we didn't play well. I think we take a long hard look at ourselves, and it certainly starts with me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Long
  • Game
  • Play

• Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Beauty
  • Riches
  • Gift Of God

• Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Collapse
  • Novelty
  • Monotony