Joshua Foer Quotes

I have a great memory.

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

My memory's bad!

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.

My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it.

To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

I have a photographic memory.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

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.'

I have a bad memory - thank God for that!

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Short term memory is not good.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.