Brain Quotes - Page 68

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

I never did think I had brain damage.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable.