Brain Quotes
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Oprah: Is there a muscle you use for performing?Billy: Yes - my brain.
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I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some stage in your life to determine if you're susceptible to concussions. We need a test that shows us that your brain is situated a certain way that puts you at risk. If you are susceptible, don't play football.
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
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I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.
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Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
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We see with our brains, not with our eyes.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime.
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Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
