Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aditi Shankardass

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

E. O. Wilson

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind.

E. O. Wilson

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Douglas Adams

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Dalai Lama

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Dalai Lama

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

Deepak Chopra

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

Dean Falk

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

T. Harv Eker

Finally, imagine that you've really worked hard on yourself and become a level 10 person. Now, is this same level 5 problem a big problem or a little problem? The answer is that it's no problem. It doesn't even register in your brain as a problem. There's no negative energy around it. It's just a normal occurrence to handle, like brushing your teeth or getting dressed.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain abhors discrepancies.

Stephen King

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

Swami Vivekananda

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Stephen Hawking

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stendhal

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

Stanislav Grof

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

Stanislav Grof

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

Shawn Achor

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

Shawn Achor

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

Shawn Achor

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

Sergey Brin

If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

Scott Westerfeld

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Steven Pinker

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

Steven Pinker

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Richard Griffiths

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

Michael Douglas

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

Ray Bradbury

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

Michelle Monaghan

I want to be inside Nic Pizzolattos brain.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

Seth MacFarlane

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Sebastian Faulks

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

Seth Godin

Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

Tom Hiddleston

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.