Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Eagleman

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

David Eagleman

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

David Eagleman

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

David Eagleman

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Danny Boyle

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

Colin Baker

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!

Gwen Davis

I'm using a part of my brain that I haven't used since school, learning the French grammar.

I'll definitely be picking the brains of a few guys here to see what their game plan is (against particular hitters).

I rack my brains to come up with something, ... It's hard.

I had been teaching all day when I found out. My brain was not working. I was very surprised because I had already won twice, and didn't think it would happen a third time. I really feel honored to be respected as a leader in the teaching community and also in my community at large.

If there was no brain damage, I would have expected him to wake up at this point.

I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like to kind of still use my brain instead of just running around with the kids.

Michael Waltrip

I ran out of brains with about five to go and hit the wall a couple of times. I just saw Kurt and wanted to win so bad. I'd rather mess up trying. I did all I could.

Arjen Robben

I put my brains in neutral and told myself 'I will make it, ... A weight has dropped from our shoulders.

I read a study from Harvard that said for the brain to memorize muscle movement, it needed time to sink in. In the practice field, you can control the environment and focus everything on what you're doing.

His brain damage actually washed away his brain.

Jack Black

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

J. B. Smoove

I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

Isabel Allende

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

By taking shallow breaths, you get less oxygen to your brain making you feel tired. Take five minutes to breathe as deeply as you can instead.

He's like a school teacher. You sit there and talk to him on the bench, pick his brain and he'll somehow make you come up with the answer.

He's an extremely strong young man. It's a miracle he survived, no doubt about it. I've never seen anything like this, and we deal with brain injuries every day.

George Bernard Shaw

Brains are not everything.

George Bernard Shaw

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

George Bernard Shaw

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Gary Larson

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

Freeman Dyson

The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.

Freeman Dyson

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

Erich Maria Remarque

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

Greg Walden

I have trouble, my little brain can't understand, how it's OK to slaughter the fish?

I have to turn my brain off from my Richmond duties to driving that car, which is pretty therapeutic for me.

He's ready when he's ready, I don't want to kill a brain cell thinking about it.

Jack LaLanne

The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.