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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6dd15e4 | The moon looks upon many night- flowers, the night flower sees but one moon. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 792fab3 | J. B. Jackson, a historian of landscapes, makes a crucial point about such things in his essay "The Necessity for Ruins." Things in decay, he says, express a theology of birth, death, and redemption." | Thomas Moore | ||
| 2dee7d8 | So whatever you desire to be delivered of--if you really want to be free--pray fervently and daily to Archangel Michael and he will deliver you. If you want to quit smoking or drinking or overeating, if you want to get your life in order so you can serve God better, just | Elizabeth Clare Prophet | ||
| 149089e | I AM the violet flame In action in me now I AM the violet flame To Light alone I bow I AM the violet flame In mighty cosmic power I AM the light of God Shining every hour I AM the violet flame Blazing like a sun I AM God's sacred power Freeing every one | Elizabeth Clare Prophet | ||
| 8ce545c | When repeated shocks and repeated release of serotonin are paired with the firing of the sensory neuron in associative learning, a signal is sent to the nucleus of the sensory neuron. This signal activates a gene, CREB-1, which leads to the growth of new connections between the sensory and motor neuron (fig. 4.5, right) (Bailey and Chen 1983; Kandel 2001). These connections are what enable a memory to persist. So if you remember anything of.. | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 9822446 | One of the great artists of this period, Barnett Newman, wrote about his response and that of his fellow artists: "We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, or what have you, that have been devices of Western European painting." In their attempt to" | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 454016c | Like Picasso and Braque, Mondrian explored the influential ideas of Paul Cezanne, who greatly influenced the analytic Cubists with his idea that all natural forms can be reduced to three figural primitives: the cube, the cone, and the sphere (Loran 2006; Kandel 2014). Mondrian recognized the plastic elements in analytic Cubism, and he began to echo the Cubists' use of geometric shapes and interlocking planes. He reduced a specific object, s.. | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 9433791 | Woman I is considered to this day to be one of the most anxiety-producing and disturbing images of a woman in the history of art. In this painting de Kooning, who was reared by an abusive mother, creates an image that captures the divergent dimensions of the eternal woman: fertility, motherhood, aggressive sexual power, and savagery. She is at once a primitive earth mother and a femme fatale. With this image, marked by fanglike teeth and hu.. | Eric R. Kandel | ||
| 34ad650 | We have seen that the region of our brain known as the amygdala orchestrates emotion and that it communicates with the hypothalamus, the region that houses the nerve cells that control instinctive behavior such as parenting, feeding, mating, fear, and fighting (chapter 3, fig. 3.5). Anderson found a nucleus, or cluster of neurons, within the hypothalamus that contains two distinct populations of neurons: one that regulates aggression and on.. | Eric R. Kandel | ||
| cbc9d5b | How can two mutually exclusive behaviors--mating and fighting--be mediated by the same population of neurons? Anderson found that the difference hinges on the intensity of the stimulus applied. Weak sensory stimulation, such as foreplay, activates mating, whereas stronger stimulation, such as danger, activates aggression. In 1952 Meyer Schapiro paid | Eric R. Kandel | ||
| 55bc577 | Emotions--sexuality, aggression, pleasure, fear, and pain--are instinctive processes. They color our lives and help us confront the fundamental challenges of avoiding pain and seeking pleasure. We | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 057f879 | The results of that work had shown that different patterns of stimulation alter the strength of synaptic connections in different ways. But Tauc and I had not examined how an actual behavior is changed and therefore had no evidence that learning really relies on changes in synaptic strength. | Eric R. Kandel | ||
| 5f9a623 | Different mechanisms underlie short- and long-term memory storage. A single sensory neuron from the siphon skin connects to a motor neuron that innervates the gill. Short-term memory is produced by a single shock to the tail. This activates modulatory neurons (in blue) that cause a functional strengthening of the connections between the sensory and motor neurons. Long-term memory is produced by five repeated shocks to the tail. This activat.. | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 2eaeac8 | The discovery by Hubel and Wiesel of cells that respond to linear stimuli with specific axes of orientation may partly explain our response to Mondrian's work, but it does not explain the artist's focus on horizontal and vertical lines to the exclusion of oblique lines. Vertical | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 7eb2298 | Matter does not control us; we control matter through our thinking and choosing. We cannot control the events and circumstances of life but we can control our reactions. In fact, we can control our reactions to anything, and in doing so, we change our brains. It's not easy; it is hard work, but it can be done through our thoughts and choices. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| b842048 | are not a victim. You can control your reactions. You do have a choice. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 8376ea7 | Reaction is the key word here. You cannot control the events or circumstances of your life, but you can control your reactions. And controlling those reactions is the difference between healthy minds and bodies and sick minds and bodies. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| d692020 | If you put your mind to it, you can achieve what God says you can achieve. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| fe48404 | Happiness comes from within and success follows--not the other way around. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 3321527 | His gaze fixed on her chest as he rose, and she realized, with mortification, that her dress was askew. She turned her back, but his arms came around her. "Let me." His hands steady again, he ran his palms up her bodice to smooth her gown back into place. He took his time, his cheek against her temple, and Eliza tried not to shake like a leaf when his fingers brushed her nipple one last time before his hands drifted to rest on her hips. He .. | Caroline Linden | ||
| 764ee8e | Faith motivates us to pursue these goals. Hope leads to expectation, which creates peace, excitement, and health in our minds, thus increasing brain and body health. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 3e340b8 | During a workshop in San Francisco, I'd spent the night at the house of a lawyer named Anne. On her nightstand there was a thin book by a guy named Joel Kramer. Unable to sleep, I picked it up and leafed through the pages. He explained the emotions Caroline and I were feeling best: We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes it s.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 14a04b6 | because whatever you think about the most will grow. This applies to both the positive and negative ends of the spectrum. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 8817d58 | If the brain can get worse by constantly focusing on the problem, then the brain can get better by understanding how to eliminate and replace the problem. | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 68be181 | Romans 12:2: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" | Caroline Leaf | ||
| 83dbc88 | As Mark and Tom continued to practice together, they both knew they wanted to pursue the band as something more than just a way to kill a summer's night. And perhaps take their relationship itself to the next level, to finally become more than just friends...The feelings were there, it was just all so confusing... | Anne Hoppus | ||
| c48a6c2 | The wilderness is littered with forgotten stories that will never be retold. | Roderick Townley | ||
| ef6a3db | So I took to the road with an accomplice and set off to the golden South, the new land of opportunity, North Carolina. Here, with the help of a partner I had only just met (and on the back porch of a rural farmhouse, to boot!), I was going to simultaneously live my version of the great American dream and enrich the lives of the residents of Raleigh, North Carolina. | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| 625d6e3 | We have always hired people with strong personalities. In fact, the only true criterion necessary to work at the Third Place is that one is a nice person--period. The rest can be learned in a day or two. We have consistently relied upon the interesting and colorful personalities of our co-workers at the Third Place to keep the atmosphere intriguing, fresh and new All of the people who have worked with us over the years have taught me someth.. | Ray Oldenburg | ||
| 685211c | An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention. | Amy Sedaris | ||
| f3263c3 | A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of marbles hitting a porcelain sink. Plus you'll know which guest is a junkie whore or gutter hype, and you'll know what else to hide. Count your stash or remove the labels from your prescription bottles. | Amy Sedaris | ||
| 2de6e6b | The position was offered at the last minute, when the scheduled professor found a better-paying job delivering pizza. | David Sedaris | ||
| e1bb40f | Boston's "That is good" is Berlin's "Das ist gut." It's an excellent way to start and leaves the listener thinking, 'Hey, Ich kann do dis.' :D" | David Sedaris | ||
| 9b55b24 | Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder I turned to look in the direction of Hugh's loft. 'You will be mine,' I commanded. | David Sedaris | ||
| a1a5b45 | This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it. | David Sedaris | ||
| 357758d | One of the things we laughed about was an old episode of The Newlywed Game. The host asked the wives, "What's the most exotic place you've ever made love?" He was likely expecting "The kitchen" or "On a tennis court at night," but one woman didn't quite understand the question and answered, "In the butt." | David Sedaris | ||
| 67d4441 | WHEN ASKED " What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness. Because it's true. Latin, geography, the gods of ancient Greece and Rome: unless you know these things, you'll be limited to doing the puzzles in People magazine, wh.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 9b7e204 | I wonder whose job it was to assign these sexes in the first place. Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise? | David Sedaris | ||
| 30de69f | At noon a huge crowd of retarded people came to visit Santa and passed me on my little island. These people were profoundly retarded. They were rolling their eyes and wagging their tongues and staggering toward Santa. It was a large group of retarded people and after watching them for a few minutes I could not begin to guess where the retarded people ended and the regular New Yorkers began. Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to .. | dark-humor new-york-city new-yorkers | David Sedaris | |
| 42077b6 | It seems crazy to cut smoking mothers out of textbooks, but within a few years they won't be allowed in movies either. A woman can throw her newborn child from the roof of a high-rise building. She can then retrieve the body and stomp on it while shooting into the windows of a day-care center, but to celebrate these murders by lighting a cigarette is to send a harmful message. There are, after all, young people watching, and we wouldn't wan.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 99d1582 | Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window." | David Sedaris | ||
| 694c95c | In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette. | David Sedaris | ||
| 96dccfc | You're the man now," she said to me after my father died, "you're the man." Then she turned to Popeye, our calico tom, and said, "You're the cat now, Popeye, you're the cat," | David Sedaris | ||
| a749459 | That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted. | David Sedaris |