Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.
Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.
It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.
I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.
