Latest Jill Bolte Taylor Quotes from Interviews

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• Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Hemisphere, Always Working

• If I can choose who I am in the moment, then I can choose to come in as my left brain personality and all of the skill sets that goes with that.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Who I Am, Skills, Personality

• I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

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  Personality, Brain, World

• The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.

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  Past, Brain, Details

• I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

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  Thinking, Brain, Whole

• The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.

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  Cells, Two, Brain

• It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.

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  Emotional, Body, Results

• We actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.

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  Cells, Giving, Development

• I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.

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  Choices, Doe, Natural

• Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that circuit. Eventually it gets enough energy to run the thought automatically without us needing to put more energy into it.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Running, Thinking, Brain

• From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Get Well, Cells, Order