Joshua Foer Quotes

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was 'Memento.'

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

I have a great memory.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.