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
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
Fernando Botero
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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
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
Gary Weiss
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
Maggie Smith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Politicians in Washington are useless.
Carlos Beruff
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Everybody I run into goes, 'Hey, 'Best in Show!'' Or, 'Hey, that dog movie!' which I don't mind because I'm not too good on titles.
Fred Willard
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
Floyd Skloot
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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.
Michael Merzenich
