"Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment..."

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Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.256, Penguin

Norman Doidge

#Brain Quotes #Environment Quotes #Speed Quotes

“If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.”
“My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.”
“There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.”
“I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!”
“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”
“I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.”
“I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.”
“Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.”

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