"After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention."

-- Norman Doidge

#Knowledge Quotes #Long Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.”
“When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes out in your writing.”
“The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.”
“Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.”
“Of course, I do not regret the Bond days. I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth, I have always hated guns and what they represent.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.”
“I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.81, Open Road Media
“I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!”

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