Richard Davidson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.
-- Richard Davidson

#Responsibility #Optimism #Brain
Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.
-- Richard Davidson

#Thinking #Skills #People
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
-- Richard Davidson

#Giving #Meditation #Mind
Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.
-- Richard Davidson

#Adversity #Survival #Resilience
Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.
-- Richard Davidson

#Judgemental #Mindfulness #Attention
The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?
-- Richard Davidson

#Kindness #Technology #Compassion
Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.
-- Richard Davidson

#Memories #Stress #Spatial
The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.
-- Richard Davidson

#Quality #Mentor #Way
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.
-- Richard Davidson

#Buddhist #Unique #Technology
In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.
-- Richard Davidson

#Meditation #Mind #Moments
The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.
-- Richard Davidson

#Health #Keys #Mind
We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.
-- Richard Davidson

#Happiness #Different #Needs
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.
-- Richard Davidson

#Thinking #Focus #Modern Life
We can change the brain by changing the mind.
-- Richard Davidson

#Change #Brain #Mind
There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.
-- Richard Davidson

#Buddhism #Understanding #Principles
Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.
-- Richard Davidson

#Skills #Well Being #Wells
I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.
-- Richard Davidson

#Compassion #Maps #Committed
We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.
-- Richard Davidson

#Ideas #Brain #Quality

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