Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

Nicholas G. Carr's Popular Quotes

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on th…

- Nicholas G. Carr

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more towar…

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The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, w…

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It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

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We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement…

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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

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What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

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We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

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The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive…

- Nicholas G. Carr