34 Quotes by Philippa Perry

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn’t the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they’ve done and climb out of it again.

Sometimes an artist’s vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person’s unconscious if it is to speak to another person’s unconscious.

We don’t have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.