Brain Quotes
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My Brain is the key that sets me free.
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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?
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.
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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
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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.
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I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.
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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.
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The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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.
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Generally the rational brain can override the emotional brain, as long as our fears don’t hijack us. (For example, your fear at being flagged down by the police can turn instantly to gratitude when the cop warns you that there’s an accident ahead.) But the moment we feel trapped, enraged, or rejected, we are vulnerable to activating old maps and to follow their directions. Change begins when we learn to "own" our emotional brains. That means learning to observe and tolerate the heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations that register misery and humiliation. Only after learning to bear what is going on inside can we start to befriend, rather than obliterate, the emotions that keep our maps fixed and immutable.
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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.
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Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.
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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.
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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.
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You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.
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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.
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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.
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I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.
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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
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More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
