Sharon Begley Quotes

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

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

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#3. The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

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#4. For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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