Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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 -
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
Eckhart Tolle -
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey -
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
Damon Galgut -
On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
J. K. Simmons -
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
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I secretly want to shave my head.
Zendaya -
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
Natalie Dormer -
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Our story of evolution ended with a stirring in the brain-organ of the latest of Nature's experiments; but that stirring of consciousness transmutes the whole story and gives meaning to its symbolism. Symbolically it is the end, but looking behind the symbolism it is the beginning.
Arthur Eddington -
You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
Charlie Sheen
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I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total … rock star from Mars, and people can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain. (The Today Show)
Charlie Sheen -
I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.
Elizabeth Berg -
When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.
Philip Schultz -
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
Matthieu Ricard -
Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.
David Perlmutter -
I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'
Lisa Cholodenko
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Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
Ferid Murad -
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
Wendell Berry -
I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.
Treat Williams -
I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
Jamie Foxx -
Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.
Catherynne M. Valente