Douglas Coupland Quotes
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.Douglas Coupland
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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 -
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 -
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 -
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
Mal Peet -
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
L. Sprague de Camp
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I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles -
I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
Ramez Naam -
Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
D. A. Pennebaker -
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
Zhang Ziyi -
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
Oliver Sacks -
I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
Felicia Day
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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 -
My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
Vanessa Carlton -
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis -
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 -
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
Tan Le -
I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
Laura Dern
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon -
At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Hans Kung -
If I don't think something's worth saying, I don't think it's quite there, I'd rather just not say it, to be honest. In that case, I'd rather wait 'till the thought is ready, 'till I feel like I'm happy with everything.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Douglas Coupland