Brain Quotes - Page 96

The question I ask myself daily is whether my smartphone has been my servant or a silent taskmaster. The truth is that our devices can serve us greatly in our walk with God, even in helping us rewire our brains in positive ways.

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.

When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

The wheels in my brain are turning and I assure you a lot is brewing up in my head!

Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.

The brain is where most people really screw up.

I think my brain just has a natural way of going to what would be the most insane thing, the least likely option.

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth...I mean, sometimes it's not worth it.