Wilder Penfield Quotes

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

Wilder Penfield

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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Better
  • Human

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Think
  • Change
  • Brain

• I'm a human being, and I get sick.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Human
  • Sick
  • Human being

• You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Time
  • Women
  • Day

• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• 'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Brain

• We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Future
  • Game
  • Destiny

• This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • Power
  • Energy

• You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Brain
  • Personality

• I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Brain
  • Professional

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

  

  Al Goldstein
  • Destiny

• Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Brain

• Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Human

• Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • People
  • Hurt

• When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Running
  • Woman
  • Choice

• Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

  

  Christmas Humphreys
  • Mankind
  • Whole
  • Other

• When a crisis is unfolding, you don't think of it as competing for time and resources. Everyone needs to stretch--keeping focused on running the business and doing what needs to be done in the face of intense need. You have to do more.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Business
  • Need
  • Crisis

• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Brain
  • Human
  • Destiny