Top 10 Quotes by Sharon Begley

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.

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

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

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

Sharon Begley

Inspirational, Looks, Study

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

Sharon Begley

Inspirational, Views, Overcoming

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

Sharon Begley

Player, Eight, Ipods

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

Sharon Begley

Brain, Mind, Doe

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

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