Brain Quotes
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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
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If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.
Carter Burwell
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
Norman Doidge
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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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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
William Shakespeare
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
Anita Loos
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Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.
Clare Balding
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The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.
Craig Robinson
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My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their business, and I'm brutally honest with them.
Charlie Shrem
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.
Dalai Lama
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I realized that if I were a 23-year-old girl getting married, and I wasn't struggling with it, that would likely mean that something was either massively wrong with me or that my brain is made up of delicately wrapped almonds that serve perfectly as party favors.
Leandra Medine
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Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
Max Lerner
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It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.
David Robinson The Cars
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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
Erich Maria Remarque
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I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.
James Wolcott
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Virginia Woolf
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The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
Matthew Stewart
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
Hippocrates
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
Hippocrates