Richard Restak Quotes

#1. Our perceptions take on richness and depth as a result of all the things that we learn. The eye is not a camera that objectively takes a photo of the "world out there." Rather, what the eye sees is determined by what the brain has learned. This suggests a short mantra: learn more, see more.

Richard Restak

#2. Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.

Richard Restak

#4. The problem is: income inequality is getting greater. There is no denying that. But this is not a distinction between Owner / Employee. This is a distinction between those with the Rich Employee mindset versus those with the Poor Employee mindset.

James Altucher

#5. One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

Matthew Desmond

#6. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#7. Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if it can ever be achieved - will require approaches that are drastically different from the way we understand other physical systems.

Richard Restak

#8. Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Oscar Wilde

#9. I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

Candice Patton

#10. Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing.

Haruki Murakami

#11. Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

James Williams

#12. DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

Terence McKenna

#13. Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

Mick Miller

#14. One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.

Richard Restak

#15. I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henning Mankell

#16. Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

Brian Tracy

#17. Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#18. The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Richard Restak

#19. For different tastes God created the colors

Eduardo R. Casas