Disorder Quote by Norman Doidge Download Open image “Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.” — Norman Doidge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disorder Habit Habits Plasticity Stubborn
“Bad habits can be ingrained in our neurons as easily as good ones. Pascual-Leone observes that “plastic changes may not necessarily represent a behavioral… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Despite what you may believe, habit research shows that dramatic changes are actually easier for us to manage, both physically and psychologically.” — Melissa Hartwig Copy Share Image
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world, — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Always improving your habits and never reaching results is called “habiting.” I invented this term for all of us to rethink how we think… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Mr. L. did not get better all at once. He had first to experience cycles of separations, dreams, depressions, and insights—the repetition, or 'working… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological “oddities,” he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. “I hate crowds in science,”… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. Psychiatrist Dr. Susan… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes,… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.” — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder,… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family. — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder. — Dan John Copy Share Image
“although those who exhibit structural division of the personality commonly exhibit altered states of consciousness, only relatively few individuals who experience altered states of… — Paul Frewen Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived… — John Walford Copy Share Image