Uncommanded Thrust Quotes & Sayings

4. Differentiation - making the smallest possible sensory distinctions between movements - builds brain maps. Newborns, Feldenkrais observed, often make very large, poorly differentiated movements based on primitive reflexes, using many muscles at once, such as reflexively extending their entire arms. They also cannot discriminate among their fingers. As they mature, they learn to make smaller, more precise individual movements. But the movements do not become precise until the child can use awareness to discern very small differences among them. Differentiation, Feldenkrais would — Norman Doidge

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach. — Shania Twain

Leave no path untaken. — Neil Gaiman

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside. — Khaled Hosseini

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He pulled me like a magnet. Every female instinct I had went into overdrive. — Ilona Andrews

When in still air and still in summertime
A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
Its drifting in detachment down the road. — Howard Nemerov

Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope. — A.W. Tozer