Brain Quotes
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
Ada Lovelace
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Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
Daniel Goleman
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When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
Christopher Nolan
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Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, 'It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women.'
Ben Carson
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Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.
Jason Babin
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I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
Marianne Faithfull
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
Vanity
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
Utah Phillips
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I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
Shania Twain
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
Marissa Mayer
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I couldn't read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, 'This is a skill that I'm developing - how to just get around everything!'
Joel McHale
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
Dan Fogler
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I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.
Mark Ruffalo
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In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.
Chris Milk
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
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Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.
David Perlmutter
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ECONOMICS COCKTAILS. Ingredients: Austrian, Behaviouralist, Classical, Developmentalist, Institutionalist, Keynesian, Marxist, Neoclassical and Schumpeterian. ... Health warning: On no account drink only one ingredient – liable to lead to tunnel vision, arrogance and possibly brain death.
Ha-Joon Chang
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.
Kara Swisher
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The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.
Brian Sutton-Smith
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One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
Daniel Goldstein
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Oh how the VacancyLaughed at them rushing by.'Turn again, flesh and brain,Only yourselves again!How far above the apeDiffering in each shape,You with your regularMeaningless circles are!'
Edith Sitwell
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The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces.
Chip Conley
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Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
Ann Miller