Brain Quotes - Page 50

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary.

It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.