Brain Quotes
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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Leon Kass -
I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
Elisabeth Marbury
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Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.
Camille Flammarion -
There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
Sara Blakely -
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.
Dan Harris -
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
M.I.A. -
Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
Candace Pert
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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
Tommy Chong -
We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.
Mika Brzezinski -
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.
George Johnson -
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
Norman Doidge -
In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
Joseph Heller -
Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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As my colleague Bruce Perry explains it, the brain is formed in a “use-dependent manner.
Bessel van der Kolk -
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 -
My brain can’t manage to repair the losses, and the only thing I really grasp is that I am lost.
Arthur Cravan -
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
Jesse Livermore -
My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.
Ned Vizzini -
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.
Woody Shaw
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.
William Mapother -
I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
Glen Campbell -
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
Emily Dickinson -
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
William E. Gladstone