Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Remarkably, the size of neurons’ dendritic trees in the hippocampus expands and contracts like an accordion throughout a female rat’s ovulatory cycle,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal,… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
I don't know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, 'He's not as good a brain surgeon as his… — Finty Williams Copy Share Image
You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island… — John Collins Copy Share Image
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's… — George Woolf Copy Share Image
So when one thought goes into your mind, it's not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the… — Daniel Mazia Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No, it was the brutal loss of his family that haunted him and for that Nykyrian couldn’t fault him at all. Syn… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less… — Jerry Gillies Copy Share Image
I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
Everyone uses the brain at every moment, but we use it unconsciously. We let it run in the background without realizing the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I just want a man -a real, two-balled masculine guy -and there aren't many of them around, believe me. But I do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Your brain is run by information generated by nations, religions, ethnic groups, and other groups whose goals are perhaps not the same… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
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