"The better we understand the choices we have……" — Jill Bolte Taylor
"The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic."
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28 Quotes by Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor has 28 quotes on this site.
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I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses…
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To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping…
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I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to…
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In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On…
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Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes…
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Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their…
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For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this…
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Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However,…
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We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.
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We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry…
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Then it crosses my mind, ‘But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!’
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The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act…
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More Automatic Quotes
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one of 237 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
— Gijs de Vries
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
— Norbert Wiener
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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