Joshua Foer Quotes

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Comprehension follows perception.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for so much.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.