Brain Quotes
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Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.
John Grisham -
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.
Vladimir Nabokov
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My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.
Gene Luen Yang -
The most important job of the brain is to ensure our survival, even under the most miserable conditions. Everything else is secondary. In order to do that, brains need to: (1) generate internal signals that register what our bodies need, such as food, rest, protection, sex, and shelter; (2) create a map of the world to point us where to go to satisfy those needs; (3) generate the necessary energy and actions to get us there; (4) warn us of dangers and opportunities along the way; and (5) adjust our actions based on the requirements of the moment.
Bessel van der Kolk -
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
Seth Godin -
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
Dan Harris -
Caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain.
Daniel Amen -
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.
Keith Devlin
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The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
Benjamin Hooks -
You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.
Napoleon Hill -
'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
Lord Byron -
Our findings show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal. Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems.
Arthur Aron -
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
Max Lerner -
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
Jules Verne
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Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.
Terence McKenna -
I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
John Grant -
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.
Brian Tracy -
I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.
Vladimir Putin -
In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
Vivien Leigh
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I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
Elisabeth Marbury -
The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion. And that says to me that . . . wed better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health.
Candace Pert -
Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.
Ann McKee