Joshua Foer Quotes

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Joshua Foer

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JourneyMemorySpaceMindEyeYou

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.

Jim Webb

MyselfWillSomethingCommitPercent

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

Jessica Pare

MeBookWineSaturdayBottleJust

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

Joel Benenson

BestPerspectiveDayNewsNothing

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Robert Smithson

MuseumMatterGoingVoidVisiting

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Maurizio Cattelan

ViewPoint Of ViewTragedySameCoin

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

Andy Murray

LifeWarParentsPeopleThinkYou

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.

Steve Case

FocusSchoolCollegeStartThink

I am a small business owner; I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.

Sonny Perdue

BusinessRainTrustI AmSmallYou

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

Tori Amos

MeMomTalkingYouHoneyLook

This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and swing.

Jose Altuve

MeFeelGoSwingWhyBig

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

Dee Dee Myers

PowerFirstAlmostIssuesPublic

So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

GameToughQuestionsGenderReady

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