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Joshua Foer Quotes

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Opportunity Practice Memory Remember

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

Mother Loved Year New Thanksgiving

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

First Bones Michigan Draft Stanford

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

Bad Said Mess About Often Could

I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I was like, 'Well, acting's not realistic. You can't make a career out of it.' So I just studied general studies and humanities at NYU, but I was doing plays while I was there. So I was sort of cheating.

School Cheating Doing You Acting Go

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Steven Spielberg

Style Parenting Free Think Unique

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

Words People Me Thinking Better Say

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Mother Wife Happy Would Rather

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

Crazy Believe Enough Signs Clearly

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Action Risk Who He Himself

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Dance Doing Obvious Avoid Tried

After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.

Communism Down Wall Run Next United

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

Character Think Political Give Hoot

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