Brain Quotes
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating
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When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
Shirley Henderson
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My Brain is the key that sets me free.
Harry Houdini
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.
Emily Dickinson
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In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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My father was all brain and little heart.
Stephen Fry
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This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself—ask any soldier.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
Scott Adams
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
William Howard Taft
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
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I don’t mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I’m bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?
Ben Aaronovitch
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The different sensations that entered the brain at the time of the trauma are not properly assembled into a story, a piece of autobiography.
Bessel van der Kolk
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It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.
Terry Bradshaw
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I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.
Anthony Robbins
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The ultimate objective of comedy is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"
Brian Regan
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I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.
Ned Vizzini
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
Ned Vizzini
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Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
Ray Bradbury
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
Diane Ackerman
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Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.
Russell Baker
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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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I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
Bette Davis
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Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.
Carolyn Hax
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.
Hedy Lamarr