Brain Quotes - Page 45

Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced into their electrochemical equivalents in the body. You could eat the healthiest meal on the planet, but if you’re thinking toxic thoughts the digestion of your food goes down and your fat storage metabolism can go up. Likewise, you could be eating a nutritionally challenged meal, but if your head and heart are in the right place, the nutritive power of your food will be increased.

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not depend on our ability to speak and hear but must be a more abstract capacity of the brain. It was the brain that had language, and if that capacity was blocked in one channel, it would emerge through another.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.