"I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be."

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Joshua Foer

#Memories Quotes #Trying Quotes #Might Quotes

“I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.390, Vintage
“God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.”
“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.91, 1st World Publishing
“Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.”
“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”
“Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.”
“There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.”

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