Sharon Begley Quotes

• 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 Begley

  Beach, Taken, Skills

  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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• The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

  Sharon Begley

  Thinking, Brain, Different

  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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• We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

  Sharon Begley

  Inspirational, Looks, Study

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• Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

  Sharon Begley

  Inspirational, Views, Overcoming

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• With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

  Sharon Begley

  Player, Eight, Ipods

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• The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

  Sharon Begley

  Brain, Mind, Doe

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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.

  Sharon Begley

  Acceptance, Mind, Information

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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.

  Sharon Begley

  Coffee, Weekend, Impact

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• The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

  Sharon Begley

  Acceptance, Mind, Shame

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• Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

  Sharon Begley

  Weather, New Normal, Energy

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