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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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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Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.
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I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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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.
