Joshua Foer Quotes

The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

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• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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  • Women
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• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Chance

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
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  • King

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
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  • Yourself

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
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  • Know
  • Thought

• If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Man

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
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  • Changes

• If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

  

  Olivia Colman
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  • Character
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• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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  • Help
  • Society

• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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  • Speak
  • Message

• I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Caring

• I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Acting
  • Impossible
  • Coach

• If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Christian
  • Angry
  • Face

• What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • World
  • Needs
  • Redneck

• We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People

• I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.

  

  Martin Millar
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  • Time
  • Good

• The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

  

  Joshua Foer
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