"Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Memories Quotes #Brain Quotes #Connections Quotes

“There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.”
“There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.”
“You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out”
“There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.”
“The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work”
“Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.”
“Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.”
“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.59, Duncan Baird Publishers

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