Brain Quotes - Page 52

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.

What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It implies that telepathic perceptions bubble up into awareness from the unconscious and are probably processed in the brain in the same way that we generate images in dreams. And thus telepathic “images” are far less certain than sensory-driven images and subject to distortion.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.