Ned Vizzini Quotes

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Ned Vizzini

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• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• 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

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Brain

• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Money
  • Brain

• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • People
  • Brain
  • See

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Nature
  • Brain

• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• 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

• You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • Different
  • Brain

• We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • People
  • Lived
  • Construction

• Brain damage ever since the day I was born, drugs is what they used to say I was on. They say I never knew which way I was goin'.

  

  Eminem
  • Brain

• A seed is small in size. But it carries in its womb leaves, flowers, fruits, nay even the whole tree. The human brain is very much like a seed. It may not have a great shape and size. But it traps within itself endless possibilities. It is a fountainhead of thoughts and promises that can be fulfilled.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Great
  • May
  • Small

• But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Brain

• 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
  • Brain

• 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
  • People
  • Today
  • Rock

• It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Different
  • Amazing
  • Brain

• The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Time
  • Why
  • Space

• I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Family
  • Home

• President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.

  

  Dean Acheson

• I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • World
  • Attention
  • Governments

• A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Brain
  • Construction
  • Mines