"Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity."

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Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.20, Penguin

Norman Doidge

#Stubborn Quotes #Habit Quotes #Disorder Quotes

“The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.129
“Donâ€™t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.”
“The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.”
“God's plan will continue on God's schedule.”
“Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.”
“You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.”
“Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.”
“If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.”

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