Michael Merzenich Quotes

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Michael Merzenich

• Important
• Judging
• Permit

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Always
  • Camera

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Better

• There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Moment

• People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • You
  • Broken

• Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Sorry

• Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Unique

• Politicians in Washington are useless.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • People
  • Up

• If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

  

  Jesse Williams
  • People
  • Democracy

• I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison

• Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.

  

  Art Malik
  • People
  • Up

• If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Single

• The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Important
  • Relationship

• I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

  

  Edgerrin James
  • Important
  • Move
  • Catch

• Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Important
  • Judging
  • Permit