H. A. Berlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.
-- H. A. Berlin

#Practice #Being The Best #Constraints
If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.
-- H. A. Berlin

#Thinking #Two #Differences
There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.
-- H. A. Berlin

#Musical #Study #Talent
It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of the mental disorders are initially things that are adaptive. Like even OCD, it's good to sort of have structure and have certain rituals but when it gets to be extreme then it becomes problematic.
-- H. A. Berlin

#People #Ocd #Structure
People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.
-- H. A. Berlin

#Thinking #People #Brain

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.
Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.
If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.
Style is the outcome of constraint.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

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