Joshua Foer Quotes
When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
Quotes to Explore
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice.
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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.
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Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.
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As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.
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When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
