Brain Quotes - Page 100

When it comes to the reason why we have nightmares, we're still debating that. It's a new area of research, nightmares. And the way I like to think about it is, our brain - we have stress during the day and our brain needs to learn to process this stress.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

I haven't quite wrapped my brain around the sleeping part yet, but I'm definitely working like a maniac.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

The female brain may confer distinctive economic advantages, to the benefit of all, and we should, therefore, pursue seriously having equal numbers of women in topic economic and financial posts. If we persist in having unequal numbers, then we should advantage the women and have a smaller percentage of men.

I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains

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.

I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains.

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?

Everyone also needs to realize that business is not rocket science. Everything that you haven't done before, you don't know it because you haven't done it before. It's not brain surgery and you figure it out as you do it.

I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.