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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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer

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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But thats not the same thing as wisdom. – Joshua Foer

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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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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. – Andrea Mitchell

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You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. – Peter Shaffer

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. – Ellen Terry

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