Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

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

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

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.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

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

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.

Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.

If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care.But when Newton’s applefell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, felltoward the apple as well.

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.