Brain Quotes - Page 72

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

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.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

It is especially important for managers to know about, neuroplasticity, the greatest discovery in neuroscience in the past 20 years. It refers to the fact that the brain is remarkably plastic. It can grow and change for the better throughout life. In fact, "plastic" denotes the brain's ability to grow and change throughout life.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.

I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later, he was doing "Happy Gilmore" and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.