David Lewis-Williams Quotes

Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished: the brain then ‘freewheels’, synapses firing more or less at random, and the brain tries to make sense of the resultant stream of images.

David Lewis-Williams

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• I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Ideal

• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

  

  Kanye West
  • Believe
  • You
  • Would

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Believe
  • Romantic
  • Big

• The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Believe
  • Done
  • You

• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Morning

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Down

• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Happen
  • Afterlife

• I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Choose

• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

  

  Antonio Perez
  • Space
  • Moving

• I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.

  

  Karen Cushman
  • Trouble
  • Anything
  • Remake

• Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished: the brain then ‘freewheels’, synapses firing more or less at random, and the brain tries to make sense of the resultant stream of images.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Believe
  • Dreaming
  • Researchers