Norman Doidge Quotes
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.
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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.
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With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
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The environment shapes people's actions.
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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
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That was the theme of the Million Mom March: I don't need a brain - I've got a womb.
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The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
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I go to the Korean spa when the kids go to bed. It's like I turn my brain off.
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And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.
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When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
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If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
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I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
