Merzenich M D Quotes & Sayings

What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are. — Ludwig Von Mises

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it. — Michael Merzenich

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 life we lead, in other words, leaves its mark in the form of enduring changes in the complex circuitry of the brain-footprints of the experiences we have had, the actions we have taken. This is neuroplasticity. As Mike Merzenich asserted, the mechanisms of neuroplasticity "account for cortical contributions to our idiosyncratic behavioral abilities and, in extension, for the geniuses, the fools, and the idiot savants among us. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

The discovery that modified speech can drive neuroplasticity in the mature brain is just the most dramatic example (so far) of how sensory stimuli can rewire neuronal circuits. In fact, soon after Merzenich and Tallal published their results, other scientists began collecting data showing that, as in my own studies of OCD patients, brain changes do not require changes in either the quantity or the quality of sensory input. To the contrary: the brain could change even if all patients did was use mindfulness to respond to their thoughts differently. Applied mindfulness could change neuronal circuitry. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses ... a slave obeys. — Ken Levine

But I'm no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I'll say, "I'm sorry," and I'll be all sweet, and then once I'm forgiven, I'll say, "But you really did start it. — Rainbow Rowell

To learn is to change how you think. — Michael Merzenich

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses. — Edith Piaf

High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified. — Frank Portman

We've been delivering cloud-based services for over a decade, with more than 30 million Intuit customers using offerings across a variety of desktop and mobile devices. The benefits are clear: online experiences are simply better for customer. — Brad D. Smith

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Whatever the circumstances of a child's early life, and whatever the history and current state of that child, every human has the built-in power to improve, to change for the better, to significantly restore and often to recover. Tomorrow, that person you see in the mirror can be a stronger, more capable, livelier, more powerfully centered, and still-growing person. — Michael Merzenich

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it. — Michael Merzenich

The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc. — Michael Merzenich

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. — D.B. Harrop

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress. — Dov Davidoff

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching. — Neil Farber

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections. — Michael Merzenich

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body. — Michael Merzenich

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. — Lemony Snicket

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost. — Ilsa J. Bick

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment. — Michael Merzenich

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. — Pat Buchanan

Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this simple phrase. — Rachilde

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement. — Michael Merzenich