When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

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.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.