I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me. — Jill Bolte Taylor Energy Copy Share Image
I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust. — Jill Bolte Taylor Astronomy Copy Share Image
My favorite definition of fear is: False Expectations Appearing Real — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Then it crosses my mind, ‘But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!’ — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.” — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude. — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me. — Jill Bolte Taylor Adventure Copy Share Image
We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Choice Copy Share Image
I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make… — Jill Bolte Taylor Beautiful Copy Share Image
“As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.” — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
If I can choose who I am in the moment, then I can choose to come in as my left brain personality… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is… — Jill Bolte Taylor Access Copy Share Image
Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in… — Jill Bolte Taylor Anger Copy Share Image
“In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences… — Jill Bolte Taylor Chimpanzee Copy Share Image
“Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning… — Jill Bolte Taylor Ability Copy Share Image
Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this… — Jill Bolte Taylor Body Copy Share Image
It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have… — Jill Bolte Taylor Body Copy Share Image
“I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more… — Jill Bolte Taylor Help people Copy Share Image
Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that… — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
“Our right brain perceives the big picture and recognizes that everything around us, about us, among us and within us is made… — Jill Bolte Taylor Big picture Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that although our limbic system functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Via our left hemisphere language centers, our mind speaks to us constantly, a phenomenon I refer to as “brain chatter.” It is… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“Our visual field, the entire view of what we can see when we look out into the world, is divided into billions… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“As information processing machines, our ability to process data about the external world begins at the level of sensory perception. Although most… — Jill Bolte Taylor Computers Copy Share Image
For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with… — Jill Bolte Taylor Action Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain. — Jill Bolte Taylor Brain Copy Share Image
Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. — Jill Bolte Taylor Child Copy Share Image
We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate… — Jill Bolte Taylor Body Copy Share Image
