"In the modern world, the anxious temperament does……" — Robin Marantz Henig
"In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities."
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28 Quotes by Robin Marantz Henig
Robin Marantz Henig has 28 quotes on this site.
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As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly;…
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The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
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The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible.…
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I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go…
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Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression…
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When my husband and I were in our twenties, we thought it would be fun to take up cross-country skiing…
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Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who…
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Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.
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The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
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Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom.…
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Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and…
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Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be…
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More Adaptive Quotes
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation…
— Julian Huxley
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Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety…
— Douglass North
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Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology,…
— Bob Ney
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its…
— Johan Huizinga
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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on…
— Dick Morris
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist…
— Niles Eldredge
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A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and…
— Jerry Sabloff
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United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
— Adam Hartung
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