Pantev Quotes & Sayings

Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness. — Ken Mehlman

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical. — Ron Brackin

The modified Mozart used by Tomatis, Paul, iLs, and others over time in an individualized therapy must be distinguished from claims made in the media in the 1990s that mothers could raise the IQ of their children by having them briefly listen to unfiltered Mozart. This claim was based on a study not of mothers and babies but of college students who listened to Mozart ten minutes a day and improved IQ scores on spatial reasoning tests - an effect that lasted only ten to fifteen minutes! Hype aside, different studies by Gottfried Schlaug, Christo Pantev, Laurel Trainor, Sylvain Moreno, and Glenn Schellenberg have shown that sustained music training, such as learning to play an instrument, can lead to brain change, enhance verbal and math skills, and even modestly increase IQ.] — Norman Doidge

Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition. — Courtney Milan

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — William Poundstone

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper. — Gerhard Richter

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one. — Racquel McDonnell

The knock-kneed brown moose, a tired group of ten, yards ahead of her for the last three days, comfort her too. It's like following a pack of grandfathers, their large, weary eyes, red lids sagging, their gray muzzles, puckered as if the world is almost done with them but not quite yet. — Amy Bloom

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet. — Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman