Atrophy Quote by Norman Doidge Download Open image “Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...” — Norman Doidge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atrophy Brain Environment Inspirational Speed
The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time. — Robert Kubica Copy Share Image
Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to… — Bill Berry Copy Share Image
“The speed of the brain is inversely proportional to the speed of the mouth squared.” — J. Richard Jacobs Copy Share Image
I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head. — Xavi Copy Share Image
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by. — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved. — Ivan Lendl 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
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image