Barreled At The Lift Quotes & Sayings

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact ... moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves. — Michael Merzenich

The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. — Marilynne Robinson

We choose our friends; our enemies choose us. — Marty Rubin

As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring. — Elizabeth Hoyt

I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work. — Sergei Lavrov

It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region. — Joe Biden

Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from one choice to another, becomes a driftwood - from this bank to another bank, from that bank to this bank. This is how you have been moving, down the ages, for so many lives — Rajneesh

My story. I inherited it."
"I think I'd rather inherit money than a story."
"I have that, too, not entirely by my choice."
"You don't want to be rich?"
"God favors the poor. But don't tell rich people that. It'll hurt their little feelings. — Tiffany Reisz

Once you get over the simple unpleasantness of it - I suspect most people would gag, the first time - it is easier to wipe somebody else's bum than it is your own, because you can see what you're doing and use both hands at once if necessary. The whole process is much more efficient and uses no more toilet paper than is strictly required, so it's better for the environment, too. If we were really green we'd all have somebody else wipe our bums, though I can't see it catching on. — Iain Banks

I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way. — Kurt Busch

I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress. — Fran Lebowitz

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. — Lisa Delpit

I wasn't home. Home wasn't that bed and that pain. Home didn't hurt. There were no strangers who hid their faces or their voices from me. Home held no secrets. — Josin L. McQuein

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man. — Sylvester Stallone