The Brain Quotes

I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Dead woman are not romantic,' Sophie said flatly. 'Okay, she's not dead,' Phin said. 'The bear ate her, and she came her brains out.

The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.

It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.

Fried Oreos. What were we talking about before? That's pregnancy-brain for ya! Ha ha ha ha!

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.

I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

Come back here so that I may brain thee!

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.

Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.