Brain Quotes - Page 115

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

My tumour is a benign pituitary tumour, in the pituitary gland - which is the main hormone centre of the body. It's in the centre of the brain. (Fun fact, [Rene] Descartes thought our consciousness was to be found in the pituitary gland.) And the thing is, there aren't really many symptoms that show until it's too late.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

I think the most incredible fact about the brain is that it is the only piece of biological real estate that can actually study itself. I can think about that for decades - I have, actually - and still be in drop dead amazement.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

All hurt is brain hurt.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.