Thuong Vu Quotes & Sayings

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

If I were a magician who could make things possible, I'd have lemonade always tasting as it did on the evening Francesco explained how right it was for the Italian moon to be a feminine moon. If I were a magician who could make things possible, we'd be able to understand all languages every evening between eight and nine. If I were a magician who could make things possible, all dams would keep their promises. If I were a magician who could make things possible, we'd be really brave. — Sasa Stanisic

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. — Tony Gilroy

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument. — Winston Churchill

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good. — Bill Vaughan

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with. — Lenny Abrahamson

The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore ... Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story ... — Jean-Claude Carriere

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going. — Simon R. Green