Brain Quotes

• When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Pain
  • Compassion
  • Evolution

• I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • True
  • Career
  • Creative

• I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Brain

• I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Brain

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

  

  Ann McKee
  • College
  • Football
  • Brain

• Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • God
  • Small
  • Stupid

• I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Brain

• If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Strong
  • Guitar
  • Seems

• By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good
  • Work
  • Power

• The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • People
  • Know
  • Brain

• I'm cooking 42 years, and I didn't know bananas are good for my brain.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Cooking

• If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Brain
  • Couple
  • Coffee

• In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Power
  • History
  • Brain

• I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

  

  Katie Price
  • True
  • Brain

• We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain's allocation of resources.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Brain

• My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate.

  

  Eminem
  • Girl
  • Brain

• I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop
  • Rapper

• Exercise your brain and body, keep engaged with work and friends, and feed your brain with a healthy, plant-based diet - as well as knowledge.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Knowledge

• Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

  

  Brad Bird
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Brain

• Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Brain

• Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stupid

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