Brain Quotes
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How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
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The brain is where most people really screw up.
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One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.
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A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.
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Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.
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One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?
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I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.
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'You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets - the stuffy room that we mistake for reality.
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I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.
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Ages of restriction to the one tool which the law was not able to take from him-his brain-have made that tool singularly competent...
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
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There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
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Is it possible this triviality is a code of some sort? the Brain wondered. But how could it be ... unless there's more to these emotional inconsequentials and this talk of a God than appears on the surface? The Brain had begun its career in logics as a pragmatic atheist. Now doubts began to creep into its computations, and it classified doubt as an emotion.
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The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
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New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.
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I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.
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The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
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You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
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Every little interaction I had with Scorsese is forever tattooed on my brain.
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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
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The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.
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Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
