Mnemonists Quotes

#1. What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

Joshua Foer

#2. Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

John Ortberg

#3. Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

Jeff Foxworthy

#5. Forever was never as long as you thought it was.

Karin Slaughter

#6. Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

Jeff Smith

#7. I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes.

Rashad Evans

#8. The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

Aaron Dontez Yates

#9. My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and did what foreign types do - they married into a penniless but well-bred local family.

Saul David

#10. Not every person is going to like you in every place you work. That's okay! Accept this, assume an attitude of "fake it till you make it," and use the experience to keep building your skills and moving your career forward.

Debra Shigley

#11. I speak Spanish like I chew spinach - like it's dried bubble gum stuck underneath a park bench.

Jarod Kintz

#12. What made you happy once might not make you happy now.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Peace comes to those who let others live in peace.

Indira Mukherjee

#14. [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

Chuck Smith

#15. I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

#16. I prize the privilege of being alone.

Carl Rogers