Brain Quotes

• The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Stop
  • Worry
  • Daughter

• We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

  

  Norman Doidge
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • See

• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Power

• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Training
  • Lies

• I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Believe
  • Boat
  • Fishing

• My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

  

  Elyn Saks
  • Experience
  • Stop
  • 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

• If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain cancer, because it means that some small part of your mind has figured out how to turn off all the other things.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

  

  George Leonard
  • May
  • Brain

• Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Age
  • Health
  • Learning

• I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

  

  Fritz Zwicky
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Exercise

• When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

  

  David Baltimore
  • Brain

• My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Work
  • Think
  • Stop

• You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Feelings
  • Audience

• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Brain

• I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

  

  Jim Thome
  • Brain

• I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes - you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.

  

  Charli XCX
  • World
  • Age
  • Sex

• There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from 'No, don't say that' to 'Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.'

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Single
  • Brain

• Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Brain

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Eyes

• I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

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