Quotes tagged ‘Brain’

(89 total)

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”

“It’s difficult to stop power’s tendency to affect your brain. What’s easier—from time to time, at least—is to stop feeling powerful.”

— Jerry Useem, theatlantic.com

“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com

“Every time you take in the good, you build a little bit of neural structure. Doing this a few times a day—for months and even years—will gradually change your brain, and how you feel and act, in far-reaching ways.”

— Rick Hanson, amazon.com

“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought to be content having exacerbated everyone around him, but he insists tormenting future generations.”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Rock 'n roll don't come from your brain. It comes from your crotch.”

— Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Daniel Desario, James Franco, imdb.com

“Consume everything relevant to your career. Read, watch films, search for inspiration on the internet, check out the work of those famous and obscure in your field, and absorb absolutely everything.”

— Thomas Oppong, medium.com

“Well, the brain is a machine, designed to respond to stimuli. You keep the brain awake but the body immobile, it breaks down, loses its hair. After two months it eventually strokes out.”

— Breen Frazier, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. . .”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins, amazon.com

“Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.”

— Bob Dole, amazon.com

“When we have been through something that has left a negative imprint on us, more than just our brains are affected - it is also our hearts and our spirits.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Cannot keep you out my brain”

— Fetty Wap, genius.com

“I used to think the brain was the most important organ. Then I thought, look what's telling me that.”

— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com

“Let me tell you why women, you win 99.9% of all fights. Yup. Yup, and I’ll tell you why right now. Here it is: because you are mental terrorists. You are brain ninjas and you know how to get in there with your katana and just cut us; and disappear into the night.”

— Dane Cook, youtube.com

“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, cdnc.ucr.edu

“I mean, let's say this is your brain. OK, from what I know about you, your brain consists of two parts: the intellect, represented here, and the part obsessed with sex. Now, granted, you have extracted an astonishing amount from this little scrap. But with no-sex—Louise, this previously useless lump…”

— David Mandel, Steve Koren, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their pos…”

— Temple Grandin, amazon.com

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com