Michael Merzenich Quotes

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Michael Merzenich

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• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • People
  • Brain
  • See

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Always
  • Brain

• I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Support

• I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Death
  • Feeling
  • Brain

• I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • World
  • Brain

• Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Health

• Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Important
  • Health
  • Brain

• Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Beautiful
  • Brain

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep
  • Brain
  • Alcohol

• Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
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  • Important
  • Moving

• Most women say 'Please speak to me from the waist up: my brain, my eyes.'

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Up
  • Women
  • Eyes

• Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Art
  • Together
  • Science

• Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

  

  Bill Berry R.E.M.
  • Great
  • May
  • Pretty

• My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Experience
  • Brain

• Listening to 'Raising Sand' was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Listening

• It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Today
  • Brain
  • Enough

• I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Guy

• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Brain
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  • Seeds