"We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes]."

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Norman Doidge

#Brain Quotes #Attention Quotes #Maps Quotes

“So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.”
“It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.”
“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”

Source : "Stalin is not a cool name for software". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 30, 1998.
“Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.”

Source : Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.”
“If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.”
“And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.”

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