Joshua Foer Quotes

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they're beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.

What is important is the character that I play. Making an impact is far more important than the length of the role.

Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.

If you have a five-second role in a film, and those five seconds make sense, then that is what matters.

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

Small does not mean insignificant.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?