Dr. Caroline Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, producer, and tutor. She has produced numerous short animated films and her work has been recognized worldwide. She is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and Ph.D. in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. May these Dr. Caroline Leaf Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “You cannot sit back and wait to be happy and healthy and have a great thought life; you have to make the choice to make this happen.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
2. “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
3. “Frame your world with your words.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
4. “You are not a victim. You can control your reactions. You do have a choice.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
5. “Our brains are made for love. Not fear. Not performance. Not aggression. But live.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
6. “God designed humans to observe our own thoughts, catch those that are bad, and get rid of them.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
7. “The sins of parents create a predisposition, not a destiny.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
8. “Multitasking is a persistent myth. Paying deep, focused attention to one task at a time is the correct way.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
9.“What your mind creates only your mind can take away.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
10. “Reaction is the key word here. You cannot control the events or circumstances of your life, but you can control your reactions.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
11.“Our choices—the natural consequences of our thoughts and imagination—get ‘under the skin’ of our DNA and can turn certain genes on and off, changing the structure of the neurons in our brains. So our thoughts, imagination, and choices can change the structure and function of our brains on every level.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
12.“By the same token, if you choose to add a signal—for example, saying something like, ‘My mother had depression and that’s why I have depression, and now my daughter is suffering from depression’—then the epigenetic marks are activated. Thinking and speaking out the problem serves as the signal that makes it a reality.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
13.“How we think not only affects our own spirit, soul, and body but also people around us.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
14. “Your body is not in control of your mind—your mind is in control of your body, and your mind is stronger than your body. Mind certainly is over matter.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
15. “Daytime thinking is a building process, whereas nighttime thinking is a sorting process.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
16.“When we step out of our Perfect You, we will be in conflict and this will make us frustrated and unhappy, and even temporarily reduce our intelligence and potentially lead to mental ill health.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
17.“We are not victims of our biology or circumstances. How we react to the events and circumstances of life can have an enormous impact on our mental and even physical health.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
18.“They travel long distances. And synthetic chemicals are used freely.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
19.“Whether we switch on happiness, peace, and good health or switch on anxiety, worry, and negativity, we are changing the physical substance of the brain.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
20. “The basic ingredients of quantum physics are: paying attention, thinking and choosing, and consequence.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
21.“The active mind changes the brain; the brain is the passive part of existence.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
22.“Change takes place over time through continual persistence.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
23.“Our mind is designed to control the body, of which the brain is a part, not the other way around. Matter does not control us; we control matter through our thinking and choosing. We cannot control the events and circumstances of life but we can control our reactions.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
24.“We are not designed to go through life with a ‘fearful spirit,’ not able to cope with or face our problems.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
25. “When we gather information like puzzle pieces without putting the puzzle together, intellectual growth is stifled.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
26.“There is something you can do that no one else can do, and the world needs you to do it!.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
27.“We are directly responsible for what we choose to think about and dwell on, and we make these decisions in the privacy of our own thinking.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
28.“Our perception of the environment plus how we manage our environment controls our bodies and lives.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
29. “Play games that are an effective mind sport, such as backgammon, chess, or bridge. If you do not already know how to play one of these games, learn. Strategize and think through the moves as you challenge your opponent. Maybe find a group of people who meet on a regular basis to play these games. Enjoy building your logical/mathematical thinking!” Dr. Caroline Leaf
30. “Who we are is where happiness lies, but this is so often blocked by who we have become.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
31. “The fact that the brain is plastic and can actually be changed by the mind gives tangible hope to everyone, no matter what the circumstance.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
32.“Research shows that 75 to 98 percent of mental, physical, and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life. This staggering and eye-opening statistic means only 2 to 25 percent of mental and physical illnesses come from the environment and genes.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
33.“What you wire into your brain through thinking is stored in your nonconscious mind. The nonconscious mind is where 99.9 percent of our mind activity is. It is the root level that stores the thoughts with the emotions and perceptions, and it impacts the conscious mind and what we say and do. Everything is first a thought.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
34. “What a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptivity of the human brain God has given us.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
35. “The nonconscious mind is responsible for somewhere between 90–99 percent of your mind’s activity. The nonconscious mind operates 24 hours a day, at fantastic speeds, about a quintillion (1018) bits per second at a synaptic level and an octillion (1027) bits per second at a microtubular level, for the whole brain. Indeed, the mind is truly magnificent. It is the orchestra conductor.” Dr. Caroline Leaf
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