Rain Quotes - Page 87

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated by time - We're constantly running simulations of the future. Our brain is a prediction machine. The hallmark of intelligence, indeed of genius, is the number and complexity of the feedback loops we use in predicting the future.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.