Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

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JOSHUA FOER What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, ...
JOSHUA FOER The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something....
JOSHUA FOER We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but th...
JOSHUA FOER I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif...
JOSHUA FOER Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it...
JOSHUA FOER This (year) is more about walking through the catacombs where the victims are. You get to see more o...
JOSHUA REALE I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ...
JOSHUA JACKSON Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsessi...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been ...
JOSHUA REYNOLDS In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
JOSHUA WAITZKIN Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our coll...
JOSHUA FOER My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS If all they do is pick out a couple of MPs to slice and dice ... that is not going to be what is nee...
JOSHUA DRATEL Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always...
JOSHUA CLARKE We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in w...
JOSHUA FOER I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in t...
JOSHUA WAITZKIN I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actual...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never ...
ISABELLE JOSHUA A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is n...
JOSHUA FERRIS I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and...
JOSHUA FERRIS People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra...
JOSHUA SASSE One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding b...
JOSHUA KADISON Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington s...
JOSHUA LANDIS Laughing is a necessity of life.
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Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

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Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

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