Top 27 Richard Davidson Quotes

#1. I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

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#2. In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open ... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

Richard Davidson

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#3. Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

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#4. We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

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#5. Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

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#6. There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

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#7. We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

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#8. In short, the brain has the power to recruit healthy neurons to perform the function of the damaged ones. Neuroplasticity enables the brain to reassign jobs.

Richard J. Davidson

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#9. There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

William Harvey

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#10. No one can hurt me - that's my job.

Byron Katie

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#11. We can change the brain by changing the mind.

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#12. Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Michael Hutchence

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#13. Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

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#14. I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

Rachel Cohn

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#15. The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

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#16. Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

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#17. I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

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#18. I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

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#19. The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

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#20. Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.

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#21. [T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being.

Ludwig Feuerbach

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#22. Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice ... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

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#23. USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Al Neuharth

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#24. The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

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#25. Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

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#26. Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

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#27. We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

Wolfgang Schauble

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