Quotes by Brain Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene. Daniel Gilbert blind-spotsmissingbrain The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness. Daniel Gilbert eyebraindoors We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections Daniel Goleman connectionsfocusbrain Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. Daniel Goleman stressbrainyears When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere. Daniel Goleman eyebrainmen Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. Daniel Goleman destinyemotionalbrain Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes. Daniel Goleman focusworkoutbrain In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. Daniel H. Pink leadershipmindbrain The right brain is finally being taken seriously. Daniel H. Pink takenbrain It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life. Daniel H. Pink differentbrainthinking I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense. Daniel H. Pink leadershipbrainthinking I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room. Daniel Handler brainsleeplittles I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse. Daniel Handler sawsbrainthinking I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly." Daniel Handler couplebrainpeople The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had insured the restlessness of all minds by enabling no single one to envisage all the qualities of the creation. Since no one by himself could aspire to a serene knowledge of the whole truth, all men had been drawn into an active, exploratory and cooperative attitude. Daniel J. Boorstin brainattitudemen Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function. Daniel J. Siegel mindbrainpeople ...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future. Daniel J. Siegel mindbrainmeaningful Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. Daniel J. Siegel expressionfundamentalsbrain The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth power). The brain is obviously capable of an imponderably huge variety of activity; the fact that it is often organized and functional is quite an accomplishment! Daniel J. Siegel accomplishmentbrainnumbers The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. Daniel Kahneman prioritiesbraingiving«3031323334353637383940»
