Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“Those who experience symptoms complain of abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and intestinal distress. Some people, however, don’t experience obvious signs of… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Pausing to implement breathwork throughout the day, places you in a more receptive state of flow. Your mind becomes clearer and your… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“The more you practice sitting with the discomfort, the more you gently (and repeatedly) redirect your cast toward something new, the more… — Ronen Dancziger 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
Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
“The postures are only the "skin" of yoga. Hidden behind them are the "flesh and blood" of breath control and mental techniques… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
“The global monetary crises of the 1990s (Mexico, Russia, Asia and Brazil) proved that our money system is now sick, and that… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“A typical outcome of too much stress is an inability to control your impulses to check e-mails, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, and… — Chris Crouch Copy Share Image
“What do all of these involuntary shakes and shivers have in common? Why do we quake when frightened or tremble in anger?… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“In attunement, it is the infant who leads and the mother who follows. “Where their roles differ is in the timing of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Joseph LeDoux at New York University has shown how the BLA learns fear.fn14,20 Expose a rat to an innate trigger of fear—a… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Then I heard it--the voice over the CB radio. “ You’re on fire! You’re on fire! ” The voice repeated, this time… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Hi Tim, Patience. Far too soon to expect strength improvements. Strength improvements [for a movement like this] take a minimum of 6… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“In addition, unconscious breathing is often quite ineffective, as are many other acts when they’re done without purpose or control. It’s estimated… — Cameron Stauth Copy Share Image
“Carbohydrates are not required in a healthy human diet. Another way to say this (as proponents of carbohydrate restriction have) is that… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“you are the same as an insect, just with a more complex nervous system responding to stimuli with a wider array of… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The nervous system has a rule that says, ‘Any trial action that is followed by reward should be repeated. Any trial action… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Although our brain and nervous system only represent two percent of our body weight, they use a full 20 percent of oxygen… — Anders Olsson Copy Share Image
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
“The role of the SNS is to create the fight-or-flight response, an effect that is balanced by the influences of the parasympathetic… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast.… — John Lurie Copy Share Image