Brigid Schulte Quotes

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Brigid Schulte

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• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hand

• I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Talent

• The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Heart
  • Black
  • Brain

• We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Support

• With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Brain

• I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Understanding

• 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

• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Great
  • Character
  • Knowledge

• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  

  David Suzuki
  • High
  • Brain
  • Mountain

• 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

• Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Brain

• You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

  

  Archibald Rutledge
  • People
  • Heart
  • Character

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Question
  • Stupid

• We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

  

  Bonnie Hammer

• I have trashed the to-do list. To help my brain...

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • Brain