The Brain Quotes
…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.
Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.
I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.
Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.
Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.
The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain.
Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.
Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.
Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.
One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.
I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.
By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.
Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.
I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
A young child's brain has a thinner skull and the brain contains more fluid. The more fluid or fat in any material, the more it absorbs microwave radiation.
Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency.
Just a little bit of exposure to this pulsed digital signal, which is now a cellphone signal, could weaken membranes of the brain.
Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.