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Joshua Foer Quotes

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book You Information Matters Reveal

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Adversity Friends Know Prosperity Us

If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.

War World Feel Early Born Paris

I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

Michael Beasley

Best People World Bad Trouble Cocky

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

Even Ourselves Censor Before Times

I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.

Losing Easy Find Try Always Match

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

Children Parents Long Become Us

I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do.

People Thoughts Always Answers Give

I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.

Work Time Plan Ahead Write Line

At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft - the Goldman Oil Supply Company.

Dianne Feinstein

Business Age Grandfather Escape Way

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

Outdoors Texas Farmer Grandfather

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

Learn Doing Same Over Being Because

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

Enemy Will Certainty Launch Against

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