Brain Quotes
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My Brain is the key that sets me free.
Harry Houdini -
The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.
Benjamin Carson
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
Benjamin Carson -
The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.
Rachel Riley -
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Norman Tebbit -
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.
Raymond Kelly -
Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott -
For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
Thomas Keating
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.
Hedy Lamarr -
Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
Scott Westerfeld -
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
Walt Whitman -
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.
Stephen Covey -
The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
Susumu Tonegawa
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I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.
Josh Peck -
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
While we all want to move beyond trauma, the part of our brain that is devoted to ensuring our survival (deep below our rational brain) is not very good at denial. Long after a traumatic experience is over, it may be reactivated at the slightest hint of danger and mobilize disturbed brain circuits and secrete massive amounts of stress hormones.
Bessel van der Kolk -
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
Henry Winkler -
Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
Scott Westerfeld
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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
Bette Davis -
If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.
William McCune -
What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.
Scott Adams -
I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.
Steve Gleason