Rudolph E. Tanzi > Quotes

“If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will be like in the future, look at your thoughts today.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Einstein’s brain. Defying expectations that big thoughts required a big brain, Einstein’s brain actually weighed 10 percent less than the average brain.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“From birth, nature has designed us to approach the world as a whole, and when we slice experience up into bits and pieces, wholeness breaks down. Then, instead of living in reality, you are being fooled by a reality illusion.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“We now know that babies are born with 90 percent of their brains formed and millions of connections that are surplus.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Creativity is a living, breathing, ever new inspiration that no computer can match. Why not take full advantage of it? For the brain has the miraculous ability to give more, the more you ask of it.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Only consciousness can understand consciousness. No mechanical explanation, working from facts about the brain, suffices.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Neuroplasticity is better than mind over matter. It’s mind turning into matter as your thoughts create new neural growth.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“you.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“According to the data, if one person became obese, the likelihood that his friend would follow suit increased by 57 percent. (This means that the network is far more predictive of obesity than the presence of genes associated with the condition.) If a sibling became obese, the chance that another sibling would become obese increased by 40 percent, while an obese spouse increased the likelihood that the other spouse would become obese by 37 percent.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Even better is to deliberately set out to learn new skills. If you show passion and enthusiasm, all the better. The simple step of giving an older person a pet to take care of instills more willingness to live. The fact that the brain is being affected makes a difference, but we need to remember that neurons are servants. The dissecting knife reveals changes at the level of nerve projections and genes. What really invigorates an older person, though, is acquiring a new purpose and something new to love.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Think of your brain as being like a Steinway grand piano. All the keys are in place, ready to work at the touch of a finger. Whether a beginner sits down at the keyboard or a world-renowned virtuoso like Vladimir Horowitz or Arthur Rubinstein, the instrument is physically the same. But the music that comes out will be vastly different. The beginner uses less than 1 percent of the piano’s potential; the virtuoso is pushing the limits of the instrument.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“When you are keeping secrets, especially secret emotions that you judge against, it’s hard to realize that forgiveness is possible.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“It’s good news that these five myths have been exploded. The old view made the brain seem fixed, mechanical, and steadily deteriorating. This turns out to be far from the case. You are creating reality at this very minute, and if that process remains alive and dynamic, your brain will be able to keep up with it, year after year.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“It’s now known that the brain can form new axons and dendrites up to the last years of life, which gives us tremendous hope for preventing senility, for example, and preserving our mental capacity indefinitely.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy. Taking”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“The new field of positive psychology is teaching us how best to use free will to promote happiness and overcome negativity.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“I don’t want to change. Why bother? We’ll get old. I see us sitting in easy chairs waiting for the kids to call.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“As we get older, we tend to get lazy and apathetic about learning. It takes smaller stresses to upset us, and these stresses linger for a longer time.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“new study has shown that routine daily stress shuts down the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for decision making, correcting errors, and assessing situations.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain

“television.”
― Rudolph E. Tanzi, Super Brain