When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.
Robert E. OrnsteinIf you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
Robert E. OrnsteinTo keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.
Robert E. OrnsteinHuman inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.
Robert E. OrnsteinNew research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.
Robert E. OrnsteinThis duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.
Robert E. Ornstein