Michael Merzenich Quotes

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

Michael Merzenich

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How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Joe Namath

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Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

Jenny Nimmo

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And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

Mel Tillis

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Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

Matt Reeves

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I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

Merry Clayton

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Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Stanislav Grof

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Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

Steven Pinker

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A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

Simon Sinek

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My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Robert B. Laughlin

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Once I went through therapy, it completely changed my life.

Miles Heizer

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I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

Jason Kander

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