Sharon Begley Quotes

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

Sharon Begley

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• The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Style

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Road

• I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Future

• I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

  

  Derek Luke

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Prom

• Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Time
  • Done

• We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

  

  John Howard

• We are really the victims of our own problems.

  

  Jimmy Greaves

• The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I thought the Dallas Cowboys were special. But the team stayed together. All teams stayed together back then. I can name you 40 guys that only played for Dallas, including Bob Lilly and Roger Staubach and Meredith. I could go on and on and on and on. We had very few other players that came from other teams. Now you have a little small nucleus of players, and about a third of your team changes every year, because of the salary cap, because of free agency. Some guy makes more money, pretty soon a guy starts making that money, you can't afford to keep him.

  

  Walt Garrison
  • Changes
  • Special
  • Players

• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

  

  Daniel Okrent
  • Opinion

• The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Changes