Ian Robertson quote: "The human brain of all ages is plastic, that is, it is shaped by what you do, what you learn and what you think, ... There is strong evidence that, particularly in the over-50s, the degree to which you retain your mental faculties depends on a number of simple behavioural factors."

The current system is cumbersome, not transparent and inefficient.
IAN ROBERTSON

High and prolonged levels of stress have negative effects particularly on the memory system,
IAN ROBERTSON

I know I've changed my life in response to the data, doing aerobic exercise and eating differently, ...
IAN ROBERTSON

This is important and squares well with what we come to realize in the past five years. It shouldn't...
IAN ROBERTSON

We are delighted to be attending our 'home' show and in one of the world's largest markets for Rolls...
IAN ROBERTSON

By 1999, the average age of my patients was around 82.
IAN ROBERTSON

There is very strong evidence, particularly when you get to over 50, that the degree to which you ma...
IAN ROBERTSON

[New learning was the third factor identified.] The more you learn, the more you can learn, ... We k...
IAN ROBERTSON

Medical advances have created a fourth age of humankind intermediate between middle and old age, and...
IAN ROBERTSON

Over the past few years, neuroscientists have made the quite revolutionary discovery that at all age...
IAN ROBERTSON

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don'...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players wh...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

Basketball is basketball.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot you...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side pick...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing agains...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the co...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they co...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the y...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
PAT ROBERTSON

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State...
PAT ROBERTSON

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga...
PAT ROBERTSON

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G...
PAT ROBERTSON

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
PAT ROBERTSON

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
PAT ROBERTSON

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
PAT ROBERTSON

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political s...
PAT ROBERTSON

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned ...
PAT ROBERTSON

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christ...
PAT ROBERTSON

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from...
PAT ROBERTSON

I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the...
PAT ROBERTSON

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of...
PAT ROBERTSON

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's n...
PAT ROBERTSON

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy...
PAT ROBERTSON

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca...
PAT ROBERTSON

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop...
PAT ROBERTSON

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
PAT ROBERTSON

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...
PAT ROBERTSON

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
PAT ROBERTSON

My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don...
PHIL ROBERTSON

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi He...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k...
KAY ROBERTSON

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would sup...
SI ROBERTSON

If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles...
PHIL ROBERTSON

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and peopl...
DALE ROBERTSON

An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himse...
DALE ROBERTSON

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex...
PHIL ROBERTSON

When I go out or to an event, I'll wear blue jeans and a shirt. And sometimes when I go to an ev...
SI ROBERTSON

Music should never be harmless.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woma...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous co...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an ideali...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stol...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themse...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I wil...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learni...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn thes...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not o...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret langua...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
JEANNE ROBERTSON

"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Sa...
PAT ROBERTSON

Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people
PAT ROBERTSON

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on som...
SI ROBERTSON

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, le...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things...
PAT ROBERTSON

When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big,...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great ...
OSCAR ROBERTSON

We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu...
PHIL ROBERTSON

I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat...
PHIL ROBERTSON

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
SI ROBERTSON

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i...
PHIL ROBERTSON

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America...
PAT ROBERTSON

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
PAT ROBERTSON

I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character act...
BRITT ROBERTSON

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON

Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON

Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON

What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r...
ROBIN ROBERTSON

I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an...
PHIL ROBERTSON

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's ...
BRITT ROBERTSON

It's about 50 percent more fuel-efficient than vehicles of today. It's totally clean. Absolutely zer...
BERNARD ROBERTSON

We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor,
BERNARD ROBERTSON

People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy, ... The way to get this car to market is to make trad...
BERNARD ROBERTSON

People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy. The way to get this car to market is to make trade-of...
BERNARD ROBERTSON

Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make.
BERNARD ROBERTSON

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
PAT ROBERTSON

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON

After 9/11, families were looking for things to do together and fun that was closer to home, and tha...
BETH ROBERTSON

There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronicall...
BETH ROBERTSON

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.
BETH ROBERTSON

At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen...
BETH ROBERTSON

It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years....
BETH ROBERTSON

Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON

I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how ...
BRITT ROBERTSON

I'm just really happy I can be a part of this.
ANN ROBERTSON

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.
ANN ROBERTSON

They were there more to control the city rather than rescue anyone.
ANN ROBERTSON

It's like we kind of screwed up.
ANN ROBERTSON

We learned a lot about ourselves today. There were a lot of positives that came out of today, and we...
AMY ROBERTSON

Our goal for both field hockey camps is to challenge the participants and to make sure that they hav...
AMY ROBERTSON

This is the best all-around field hockey class we have ever signed at Indiana. They possess a high l...
AMY ROBERTSON

We need to sharpen up our receiving and passing skills, and the indoor style will be a good environm...
AMY ROBERTSON

The album has a lot of true stories in there. We did three full tours last year, so there were a lot...
ALLISON ROBERTSON

It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grad...
ALLISON ROBERTSON

It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, havin...
ALLISON ROBERTSON

We needed a little more variety, some different tempos and textures. It was not a plan to go for som...
ALLISON ROBERTSON

Our manager expected us to throw things at him, ... but I said, 'I'll do it! Yeah!' and the rest of ...
ALLISON ROBERTSON

It's cool. I complain every summer that I don't get to go to fairs anymore -- I always used to go as...
ALLISON ROBERTSON

The female bond, I have to say,
ALLISON ROBERTSON

When the hurricanes hit, a lot of information came up. We want to replant, and replant right.
ALYCE ROBERTSON

Trees are very emotional. I try not to say, 'Palms are bad.' . . . But when you walk down a street a...
ALYCE ROBERTSON

I see this as an opportunity. We had some crummy trees in our right of ways.
ALYCE ROBERTSON

In the summertime, if you walk down the street, and all you have is a palm tree shading you . . . th...
ALYCE ROBERTSON

If you come here as a tourist in January, you certainly want to see palm trees. But in July in South...
ALYCE ROBERTSON

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring ...
PAT ROBERTSON

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restl...
PAT ROBERTSON

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said ...
PAT ROBERTSON

I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed a...
PHIL ROBERTSON

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that...
PAT ROBERTSON

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.
PHIL ROBERTSON

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a...
JULIAN ROBERTSON

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we did...
PHIL ROBERTSON

We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.
PHIL ROBERTSON

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change...
PHIL ROBERTSON

It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally sa...
PAT ROBERTSON

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the f...
KATHLEEN ROBERTSON

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the t...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characte...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

For us, it's an advantage.
BRIAN ROBERTSON

There's an old rule in politics: If you're explaining, you're losing.
BRIAN ROBERTSON

I knew we'd be here for the rest of our lives.
BRIAN ROBERTSON

(HMAS) Tobruk is able to stay in the area for a week if need be, ... We anticipate that she could ev...
BRIAN ROBERTSON

[While the open source vendors get their support departments up to snuff, it is possible to do witho...
BRIAN ROBERTSON

Some days are better than others, ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light ...
BRIAN ROBERTSON

She is more and more like herself every day,
BRIAN ROBERTSON

We're glad to have her back in Des Moines, because to us, that means that she's making steady progre...
BRIAN ROBERTSON

Linux doesn't break that often, but when it does and the problem isn't solved by a reboot, our devel...
BRIAN ROBERTSON

A member of the leadership told the congressman on the floor he would regret this vote.
BRIAN ROBERTSON

He was waiting. He was actually talking on the phone with the ex-girlfriend when the victim pulled u...
BILL ROBERTSON

The timing turned out to be perfect.
BILL ROBERTSON

Everyone's safe, which is great news,
BILL ROBERTSON

Any complaint on their part of not knowing is just bogus. If they wanted to know, they could know, ....
BILL ROBERTSON

We think it's a good investment to get more from our crews,
BILL ROBERTSON

The truth is, we have so many potholes, we could have picked just about anywhere,
BILL ROBERTSON

They started arguing and then bang.
BILL ROBERTSON

There was another confrontation on the bus and the suspect pulled out the handgun and shot her once....
BILL ROBERTSON

We've been to all seven continents and been on 32 cruises. In July, we're going on a cruise to Alask...
BILL ROBERTSON

[? The Wild has experimented by putting its radio broadcast team of Bob Kurtz and Tom Reid on the fi...
BILL ROBERTSON

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it...
LORD ROBERTSON

I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly beca...
BRITT ROBERTSON

You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or ...
PAT ROBERTSON

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and th...
PHIL ROBERTSON

I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go thr...
BRITT ROBERTSON

I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the ...
KAY ROBERTSON

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanki...
PHIL ROBERTSON

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite fran...
PAT ROBERTSON

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone...
PAT ROBERTSON

The human brain of all ages is plastic, that is, it is shaped by what you do, what you learn and what you think, ... There is strong evidence that, particularly in the over-50s, the degree to which you retain your mental faculties depends on a number of simple behavioural factors.

Ian Robertson

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