Pcta Heart 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

One cannot judge of crime with ready-made opinions: its philosophy is a little more complicated than people think. It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever reformed a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted. — Marcus J. Borg

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government. — Kenneth Langone

What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours. It can always be taken away. But even if we lose everything we work for, the achievement is ours forever. — C.W. Gortner

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good. — Andy Samberg

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you. — Stuart Pearce

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand. — Ayn Rand

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for. — Dorothy Parker

I've got so many blessings in my life. — Chynna Phillips

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. — Grace Paley

As with winning the lottery, or becoming famous - there is no manual for becoming a woman, — Caitlin Moran