Quote by Joshua Foer
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections betwee

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. – Joshua Foer

Other quotes by Joshua Foer

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when were idling in front of our computer screens. – Joshua Foer

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Age
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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Experience
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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. – Joshua Foer

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communication
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. – Shel Silverstein

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Humor

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but theyre uncomfortable laughs. – John Ratzenberger

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Humor

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell

Category:
Humor

Every time I do a movie like Finding Neverland or Chocolat or Shakespeare in Love, we deal with the creative process, but theres humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie. – Harvey Weinstein

Category:
Humor

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Funny, I dont feel any more powerful today than yesterday. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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