“Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.” MindHas BeensThreeAsksAnswersBrainIndiaAskingWestPhilosopherFascinatingLofty Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.” WellsHeartMeanTwoSoulPlayOrderAsksGrowsAnswersPayBrainStyleDegreesMusicianJazzNotesDuesRelateAsk MeHeart And SoulLife Style Author:Woody Shaw
“I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.” PeopleKnowsAbleReadingAsksStuffBrainBlockPleasant Author:Michael Madsen
“Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines.” SelfAsksBrainSkillsMachinesWideRangeGet BetterSelf ControlWillpowerMeditatingIt Gets Better Author:Kelly McGonigal
“I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.” PeopleDoneHelpingAsksBrainAdviceProudPicksGet BetterNot Afraid Author:Dave Bautista
“When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.” IfsPersonsMightAsksBrainAcceptingTechnologyDesignComputerProgramCornersDigitalArtificial IntelligenceDevelopersDigital Technology Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingLooksPersonsBookAsksMemoriesAnswersForgetBrainMarriedGive MeCommitLazyLazinessBeing MarriedSuitcases Author:Alice Thomas Ellis
“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingPersonsI CanEndsHardLightEyeEarthAsksWaitingCan DoDarkSpaceInterestingBrainToo MuchWasteEmptySkinsAsk MeStaringShyTunnelsBest PlaceSomething InterestingEyes LookingBeing ShyWaste Of Space Author:Carol Rifka Brunt
“People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.” PeopleHumansAsksAnswersBrainConsciousnessHuman NatureAriseRhetorical Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height” MindAsksSocialBrainAreasFunctionDuesHeightMeaninglessPsychiatryWidthRectangles Author:Leon Eisenberg
“Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.” IdeasAsksJusticeBrainAnarchist Author:Honore de Balzac
“Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.” PeopleSometimesAsksResultsBrainProduceFavourCunningKnocking Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.” MenGivingMayChildrenSaidBodyAsksBrainFitHusbandEqualLaborSlaveMy ChildrenMy HusbandControlledHouseholdUnbornMale Dominance Author:Voltairine de Cleyre