Cognitive Change Quotes

I hadn’t thought of that.

To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you'll never get it back together again, think again.

It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.