"Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them."

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Source : Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.1, Penguin

Steven Johnson

#Memories Quotes #Children Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Romania are more Portuguese than German.”
“I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.”
“I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.”
“If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.”
“Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.”
“As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.”

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