Joshua Foer Quotes

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

Joshua Foer

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• I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

  

  Rae Carson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Reading

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Help
  • Words
  • Wife

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Way
  • Thought

• Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Person
  • Just
  • Been

• It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Strength

• The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Sky

• There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • American
  • Age
  • Opinion

• Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Remember
  • Think

• Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

  

  Edmund White

• I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

  

  Mary McCarthy
  • People
  • She
  • American

• Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Silent
  • Athletes
  • Gladiators

• Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Know
  • Don't Worry

• It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

  

  Roland Emmerich
  • Success
  • Because

• Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Exercise
  • Disappear
  • Collapse