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

• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
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  • Map

• 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
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• 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

• When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • World
  • She
  • 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

• Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.

  

  David Perlmutter
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  • 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

• I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • People
  • Art
  • Artist

• Now, you just watch your attention. Where is it going? Watch yourself. As soon as you'll start watching yourself, your attention, you'll become more identified with your Spirit.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Spirit
  • Watches

• We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Writing
  • Joy

• I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

  

  Fats Domino
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  • Want
  • Rock

• 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
  • Watches
  • Seeds