Quote by Joshua Foer
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. – Joshua Foer

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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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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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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. – William C. Bryant

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In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination – very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted. – Joe Shuster

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The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation. – Matt Furey

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. – Adam Smith

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