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Top 25 Norman Doidge Quotes (2025 Update)

Norman Doidge Quote: “The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”

1. “The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”

— Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Quote: “Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...”

2. “Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.”

3. “Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.”

4. “Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.”

5. “Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.”

6. “Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.”

7. “Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.”

8. “Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.”

— Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Quote: “Pain is an opinion on the organism’s state of health rather than a mere reflexive response to injury.”

9. “Pain is an opinion on the organism’s state of health rather than a mere reflexive response to injury.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.”

10. “Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.”

— Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Quote: “Nature has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”

11. “Nature has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”

— Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Quote: “After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be ‘turned on’ to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”

12. “After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be ‘turned on’ to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As.”

13. “6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless – a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.”

14. “We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless – a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.”

15. “Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Moskowitz defined chronic pain as “learned pain.” Chronic pain not only indicates illness; it is itself an illness. The body’s alarm system is stuck in the “on” position, because the person has been unable to remedy the cause of an acute pain, and the central nervous system has become damaged.”

16. “Moskowitz defined chronic pain as “learned pain.” Chronic pain not only indicates illness; it is itself an illness. The body’s alarm system is stuck in the “on” position, because the person has been unable to remedy the cause of an acute pain, and the central nervous system has become damaged.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “According to Ramachandran, pain, like the body image, is created by the brain and projected onto the body. This assertion is contrary to common sense and the traditional neurological view of pain that says that when we are hurt, our pain receptors send a one-way signal to the brain’s pain center and that the intensity of pain perceived is proportional to the seriousness of the injury.”

17. “According to Ramachandran, pain, like the body image, is created by the brain and projected onto the body. This assertion is contrary to common sense and the traditional neurological view of pain that says that when we are hurt, our pain receptors send a one-way signal to the brain’s pain center and that the intensity of pain perceived is proportional to the seriousness of the injury.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Based on his work with plasticity, Taub has discovered a number of training principles: training is more effective if the skill closely relates to everyday life; training should be done in increments; and work should be concentrated into a short time, a training technique Taub calls “massed practice,” which he has found far more effective than long-term but less frequent training.”

18. “Based on his work with plasticity, Taub has discovered a number of training principles: training is more effective if the skill closely relates to everyday life; training should be done in increments; and work should be concentrated into a short time, a training technique Taub calls “massed practice,” which he has found far more effective than long-term but less frequent training.”

— Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Quote: “Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.”

19. “Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.”

20. “We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.”

21. “The brain can shut pain off because the actual function of acute pain is not to torment us but to alert us to danger.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. Feldenkrais didn’t correct errors or “fix” people.”

22. “8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. Feldenkrais didn’t correct errors or “fix” people.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “9. Random movements provide variation that leads to developmental breakthroughs. Monumental gains, Feldenkrais discovered, are made not by mechanical movement but by the opposite – random movements. Children learn to roll over, crawl, sit, and walk through experimentation. Most babies learn to roll over, for instance, when they follow something with their eyes that interests them, then follow it so far that, to their surprise, they roll over.”

23. “9. Random movements provide variation that leads to developmental breakthroughs. Monumental gains, Feldenkrais discovered, are made not by mechanical movement but by the opposite – random movements. Children learn to roll over, crawl, sit, and walk through experimentation. Most babies learn to roll over, for instance, when they follow something with their eyes that interests them, then follow it so far that, to their surprise, they roll over.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “He is social, but not in large groups. “I don’t go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk. I don’t tend to like that kind of thing. I’d rather sit down with somebody and find a mutual topic of interest, and explore it in depth with that person, or maybe two or three people. Not a conversation that says how do you feel”.”

24. “He is social, but not in large groups. “I don’t go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk. I don’t tend to like that kind of thing. I’d rather sit down with somebody and find a mutual topic of interest, and explore it in depth with that person, or maybe two or three people. Not a conversation that says how do you feel”.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Given that sexuality is an instinct, and instinct is traditionally defined as a hereditary behavior unique to a species, varying little from one member to the next, the variety of our sexual tastes is curious.”

25. “Given that sexuality is an instinct, and instinct is traditionally defined as a hereditary behavior unique to a species, varying little from one member to the next, the variety of our sexual tastes is curious.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “To my mind, every emergency room should have a low-intensity laser for people with stroke or head trauma. This therapy would be especially important for head injuries, because there is no effective drug therapy for traumatic brain injury. Uri Oron has also shown that low-intensity laser light can reduce scar formation in animals that have had heart attacks; perhaps lasers should be used in emergency rooms for cardiac.”

26. “To my mind, every emergency room should have a low-intensity laser for people with stroke or head trauma. This therapy would be especially important for head injuries, because there is no effective drug therapy for traumatic brain injury. Uri Oron has also shown that low-intensity laser light can reduce scar formation in animals that have had heart attacks; perhaps lasers should be used in emergency rooms for cardiac.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “When such patterns are triggered in therapy, it gives the patient a chance to look at them and change them, for as we saw in chapter 4, “Acquiring Tastes and Loves,” positive bonds appear to facilitate neuroplastic change by triggering unlearning and dissolving existing neuronal networks, so the patient can alter his existing intentions.”

27. “When such patterns are triggered in therapy, it gives the patient a chance to look at them and change them, for as we saw in chapter 4, “Acquiring Tastes and Loves,” positive bonds appear to facilitate neuroplastic change by triggering unlearning and dissolving existing neuronal networks, so the patient can alter his existing intentions.”

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Norman Doidge Quote: “Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to “relive” or “reenact” them, especially if they were traumatic.”

28. “Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to “relive” or “reenact” them, especially if they were traumatic.”

— Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Quote: “Cultural differences are so persistent because when our native culture is learned and wired into our brains, it becomes “second nature,” seemingly as “natural” as many of the instincts we were born with. The tastes our culture creates – in foods, in type of family, in love, in music – often seem “natural”, even though they may be acquired tastes.”

29. “Cultural differences are so persistent because when our native culture is learned and wired into our brains, it becomes “second nature,” seemingly as “natural” as many of the instincts we were born with. The tastes our culture creates – in foods, in type of family, in love, in music – often seem “natural”, even though they may be acquired tastes.”

— Norman Doidge

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