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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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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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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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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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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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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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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The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.
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Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.
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There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.
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Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
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Both Hitler and Mussolini have plagiarized and imitated practically everything from everyone. Mussolini stole from the Bolsheviks and from Gabriele D’Annunzio, and found inspiration in the camp of big business. Hitler imitated the Bolsheviks and Mussolini.
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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.
