Norman Doidge Quotes
Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
Quotes to Explore
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.
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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
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What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
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A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
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Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
