"In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body."

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Source : "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.”
“In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.”

Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.309, Macmillan
“Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.”
“This,â€™ whispered the Doctor to Romana, â€˜is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.”
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
“Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.”
“Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.”
“BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.”

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