Doe Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“What does the frontal cortex do? Its list of expertise includes working memory, executive function (organizing knowledge strategically, and then initiating an action based…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The prefrontal cortex is a complex, fragile region of the brain. In its healthy state, it directs human impulses toward rational choices and away…

— Ron Powers

“The prefrontal cortex chooses what to do based on what’s good for us in the long term. The nucleus accumbens chooses what to do…

— Alex Korb

“Decision making in the prefrontal cortex, which is a high-level brain process, affects the lower-level sensory processes.”

— Alex Korb

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good…

— Cicely Tyson

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

— Daniel Goleman

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

— James Dean

“This is central to understanding the nature of motivation, as well as its failures (e.g., during depression, where there is inhibition of dopamine signaling…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“From a psychological point of view, one can see how this is quite true.  People until the age of around twenty five have frontal…

— Summary Station

It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather buy some…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“the brain shows less activity in the ventral striatum, a part of the brain involved in our response to rewards”

— David DiSalvo