Nellie McKay Quotes

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

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• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Heart
  • Brain

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Brain
  • Same
  • Memory

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Evidence

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Brain
  • Realizing
  • Paragraph

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Route

• Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Brain
  • Deep
  • Information

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Brain

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Mercy

• I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • Time
  • Important
  • Hug

• I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Real
  • Think

• All clothes are worn on the street, but 'streetwear' had once described T-shirt brands and skate-inspired brands, and now it's just a lazy innuendo used to describe clothing made by designers that the establishment deems 'less than.'

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Inspired
  • Lazy

• In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Brain