Brain Quotes - Page 31

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.

The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium...The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.

One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.