Jeff Hawkins Quotes

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

Jeff Hawkins

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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Moment

• I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Science
  • Short

• We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Strong
  • Speech
  • Finish

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • More
  • Relative
  • Skydiving

• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Done
  • Situation
  • Random

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Color
  • Battle
  • Monster

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Stop

• The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Song
  • Professional

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• I am not concerned about two successive defeats, ... I am just sad for the players that they haven't got their due rewards.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Players
  • Rewards
  • Defeats

• I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.

  

  James Marsters
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Women

• It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Good
  • Man
  • Brain

• Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • Brain