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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three…
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone,…
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning…
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Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this,"…
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
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I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our…
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Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve…
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I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major…
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In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were…
— Alison Gopnik
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The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of…
— Thomas Pogge
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In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as…
— Nia Long
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I think Born This Way is the kind of record that if you are really paying attention you will get the full…
— Akon
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