The Brain Quotes

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'...and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.'

In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.