Brain Quotes
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I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.
Jennifer Egan -
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
Paul Bloom
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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.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.
Marge Piercy -
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
John Ortberg -
Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.
Daniel Levitin -
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
William Shakespeare -
With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.
Sharon Begley
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You see, Adam had a perfect brain. We don't, because our brain has suffered from thousands of years of sin and the curse. Frankly, we're nowhere near as intelligent as Adam was.
Ken Ham -
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
Vladimir Putin -
A brain can improve till it fits its environment.
William Ross Ashby -
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
Michel Gondry -
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car.
Daniel Levitin
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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
Monica Ali -
Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.
Nalini Singh -
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf -
Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.
Emily Dickinson
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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
Bill Vaughan -
When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'
Brie Larson -
Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
David Beckham -
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish