Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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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.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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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.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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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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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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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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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
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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.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!
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If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.
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I think it getting a gun should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.
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It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
