Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create. - Robert E. Ornstein

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The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration. . . I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.

Robert E. Ornstein

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

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The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

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New 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.

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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.

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We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

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If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

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