Brain Quotes - Page 75

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.

You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.

I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

As an artist, and for me personally, my biggest fear is categorization. I hate the idea that I would become someone who says that "this is what I do and now that's what I am." What I really feel like is an explorer. I want to continue exploring my brain cave and see what's there, you know? And I don't want to just stay in one cave.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination