Wiring Quotes

• Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

  John Medina

  Unique, Brain, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

  Francis Bacon

  God, Wire, Weight

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.179, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

  Guy Spier

  Understanding, Trying, World

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• Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

  John le Carre

  Tyrants, House, Tyranny

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• There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

  David Levithan

  Keys, Hands, Ideas

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

  Thomas Friedman

  Change, Data, Ipads

  "It’s a 401(k) World" by Thomas Friedman, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

  Chris Pine

  Eyebrows, Faces, Envious

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• It is unnecessary to understand electromagnetic theory before wiring a lamp or to study physics in order to repair a pump. We count on our fingers and give no heed to the proliferating implications of the act.

  James R Newman

  Order, Giving, Lamps

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• the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reading, Writing, Order

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• Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.

  Carolyn Hax

  Skills, People, Focus

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

  Source: content.time.com

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• People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

  B. J. Fogg

  Teaching, People, Effort

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• We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Brain, Facts

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• The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

  E. O. Wilson

  Parent, Robots, Doe

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• I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Grateful, Thinking

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• As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

  Christiane Northrup

  Love, Inspirational, Doctors

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• I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Brain, Age

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Wall, President, Moscow

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• The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

  James C. Collins

  People, Leader, Transition

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

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• Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.

  Kevin Maney

  Practice, People, Brain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!

  Paul Levine

  Angel, Men, Feet

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• This is the ultimate bad-boy date, isn't it? Breaking into a different country." "Hey, it makes a change from hot-wiring cars together." "Been there, done that....Alex seriously, are you sure no one's going to shoot us?

  L.A. Weatherly

  Country, Boys, Car

  L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.38, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

  Steven Pinker

  Ambition, Unique, Opportunity

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• Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Patterns, Levers

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