Sharon Begley quotes
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“The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.”
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“The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.”
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“Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.”
-- Sharon BegleySource : Sharon Begley (2008). “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves”, p.9, Ballantine Books
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“Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.”
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“A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.”
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“We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.”
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“Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)”
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“With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.”
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“The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.”
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“The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking ...”
-- Sharon BegleySource : Sharon Begley (2008). “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves”, p.254, Ballantine Books
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