Brain Quotes
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I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.
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Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
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When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.
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Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
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Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
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I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Our most surprising finding was a white spot in the left frontal lobe of the cortex, in a region called Broca’s area. In this case the change in color meant that there was a significant decrease in that part of the brain. Broca’s area is one of the speech centers of the brain, which is often affected in stroke patients when the blood supply to that region is cut off. Without a functioning Broca’s area, you cannot put your thoughts and feelings into words.
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An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there in a Daguerreotype so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.
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Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
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I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.
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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}
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Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
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The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
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Evolution doesn't design things... The brain is... like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction.
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What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?
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My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
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There's in Outcast so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.
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Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.
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Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.
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I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.
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I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.
