Medina Quotes

• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

  John Medina

  Starting Over, Design, Brain

  "Education 2020 — An Emerging Consensus About Learning" By Paula Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

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• What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

  John Medina

  Brain, Looks

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.58, Pear Press

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• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

  John Medina

  Design, Brain, Doing You

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.14, Pear Press

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• The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

  John Medina

  People, What If, Unhappy

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.48, Pear Press

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• We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Curiosity, Lifelong

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.133, Pear Press

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• Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Tasks, Matter

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• When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  House, Next, Messages

  "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". www.red-lines.co.uk. May 1997.

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• Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

  Nelson DeMille

  Islamic, Rome, Cities

  "Yo, Terrorists: Make Our Day" by Michael Smerconish, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 01, 2006.

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• There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Islam, Groups, Three

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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• Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kings, Father, Army

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
  If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?

  Eliza Griswold

  Religious, Jesus, War

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• At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

  Maya Angelou

  Paris, White, People

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