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Joshua Foer Quotes

There is a short window at the beginning of one's professional life, when it is comparatively easy to take big risks. Make the most of that time, before circumstances make you risk averse.

Joshua Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1982

Topics

Life Time Beginning Risks Window

One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.

Jodi Kantor

Day People Face You Every Day First

What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?

John Dos Passos

Man You Wrong Big Being Use

Mentally strong people don't shy away from change - nor do they expect immediate results.

Amy Morin

Change People Strong Results Shy

There's no religion but sex and music.

Sting

Music Religion Sex

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

Roland Joffe

Confidence Me Tribe Much Eventually

Every player dreams of a big league.

Michy Batshuayi

Dreams Big Player Every League

What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Laugh Same Things Found Everywhere

As a model, I travel non-stop.

Jasmine Guinness

Travel Model Non-Stop

I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.

Christian Slater

Grateful People Sometimes Way Little

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Chuck Jones

Find Individuality Animals More Get

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Bob Beamon

School New York Me Team High School

If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything.

Brian O'Driscoll

Work Time Doing You Back Repetition