The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

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

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.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

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 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.

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

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.