Antonio Damasio Quotes
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.
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For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.
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I phoned Barkha and said, 'Are you providing the address of this 'unprotected' bazaar to the rioting mobs? Are you inviting them to come and create trouble there by announcing that there is no police here so you can run amok safely?'
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I suddenly realised I could maybe occupy a different position because of age, a kind of acceptance.
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There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
