Explore Quotes by Joshua Foer

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.