Brain Quotes - Page 17

The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.

We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.

The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

Caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.