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We should like to have some towering geniuses to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery in your mind's eye. That's 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.
Quotes By Joshua Foer
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We've outsourced our memories to digital devices and the result is that we...
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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented...
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Our ability to find humor in the world to make connections between...
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Someday in the distant cyborg future when our internal and external memories...
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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to...
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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network...
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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days...
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No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with...
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When I climb into my car I enter my destination into a GPS device whose...
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One of the great challenges of our age in which the tools of our...
Quotes About Imagination
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
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With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...