Brain Quotes
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As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.
Damian Thompson
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
William Goldman
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I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
Faina Ranevskaya
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve
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If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
Michael Merzenich
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.
Francis Crick
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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
Michael Gove
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I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?
Astra Taylor
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I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
Sergio Aragones
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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
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You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!
Mark Russell
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Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.
Steve Jobs
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
Daniel Wolpert
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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
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When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.
Elizabeth Blackburn
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'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.
Stephen Covey
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What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.
Brandon Mull
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It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
