Quotes about brain
brain survival machines
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function. Stephen Jay Gould
brain experiment pays principle
What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention.
brain brains coincide gathers grain impression mind provide second simply smells suddenly thousand within
What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i Louis L'Amour
brain parts relation research understanding
This research suggests that we're understanding different parts of the brain in relation to decision-making and emotions.
brain compare genuine issue looked review systems tax
There has been a genuine issue about tax and a brain drain. This will be looked at as part of the review as we compare tax systems from different countries.
brain waiting
Why are they waiting for two months? Are they brain dead?
brain guys last mature patience rely
You have to be mature doing what I do. These guys want to see a leader, not someone immature. I rely on my brain a little more than last year. It's a patience thing. Ben Roethlisberger
brain experience level mission stop telling
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission. Elyn Saks
brains hurt lost people seem wheelchair
When people see a wheelchair victim, people seem to think you've lost your brain. I need people to see that I hurt my neck, but I didn't hurt my brain.
brain culture harmony
I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore. Kurt Vonnegut
brain instigators made
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.
brain control found last rage rash regions
We found that the frontal lobes were the last to develop. These brain regions control inhibition, rash actions, rage and anger. E. P. Thompson
brain brains dead seconds
We kind of went brain dead for 10 seconds in a 2-2 game.
brain break christmas competing good half hard hopefully lately learn learned missed mother people putting season second weeks worked
We've really had a good second half of the season. Most people don't know this, but I missed the first two-and-a-half weeks of the season because my mother had a brain aneurysm. We used Christmas break as my preseason. We worked hard putting things in. That's when they really started to learn my system. Things started clicking. We started competing and then lately we've learned how to win. Hopefully that will continue.
brain mind daylight
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day. Erin Morgenstern
brain finally intimate learning moment people tv understand
On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake. Kirsten Vangsness
brain astronaut mathematical
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain. Eva Amurri
brain body speak
Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry. Mindy Kaling
brain want sides
In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.
brain mind madness
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now. Jules Verne
brain looks rooms
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there. Margot Asquith
brain surprise sometimes
My brain surprises even me sometimes. J. K. Rowling
brain fuzzy ears
A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.
brain wake-up protein
I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day. Marisa Tomei
brain mystery come-up
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. Pamela Stephenson
brain would-be strange
He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her. Julia Quinn
brain battle looks
The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.
brain culture hemisphere
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society. Leonard Shlain
brain mind freedom-of-speech
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. Nadine Gordimer
brain special cases
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. R. Buckminster Fuller
brain mind metaphysical
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
brainwashing preaching brainwashed
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. Powell Clayton
brain hierarchy singers
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Nellie McKay