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“I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.”

“Golf Media is basically my brain in one place. It does just about everything except cure asthma. If you find an app that cures asthma, definitely let me know.”

Ifs Knows Doe Brain Media Let Me Golf Cures Apps Asthma

Author:Tyler, The Creator

“Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.”

Humans War Remember Brain Colonialism Imperialism Human Brain

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.”

Facts Seems Brain Fiction Stranger Adages Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“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.”

People Humans Asks Answers Brain Consciousness Human Nature Arise Rhetorical

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.”

Ifs Doe Happens Can Do Imagination Brain Seeing Involved Activity Perception Hearing Active Imagery Hallucinations Autonomous

Author:Oliver Sacks

“In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.”

People Brain Cases Happenings Awful Acknowledge Hallucinations

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.”

Long Term Emotion Attention Brain Practice Study Meditation Blood Produce Flow Function Significant Long Term Related Andrew Cerebral Alterations Blood Flow

Book:Hallucinations

Source: Hallucinations

“Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.”

Individual Brain Consciousness Gone Lifetime Over You Twins Identical Identical Twin Conjoined Twins

Author:Gerald Edelman

“Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.”

World Way Individual Brain Development Computer Encounters Psychologist Cognitive

Author:Gerald Edelman

“All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.”

Writing Humans States Problem Dream Brain Novel Sadness Math Lust Static Math Problems Happiness Sadness

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.”

Humans Body Able Brain Computer Profound Smarter Human Intelligence

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”

Ifs World Way Trying Mean Dream Past My Own Sleep Brain Wonder Bears Sorrow Healthy Scene Fingers Forgotten Tiny Holes Grass Prophet Dreamer Bubbles Wet Peers Blades Curls Sinkholes

Author:Karen Russell

“An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.”

Mind Humans Understanding Challenges Brain Ultimate Human Mind Mechanism Joints Human Brain

Author:Tony Hoare

“The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.”

Remember Brain Blood Moved Iron Savages

Author:Loren Eiseley

“I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.”

Doe Brain Style Picks

Author:Joan Smalls

“We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.”

Needs Giving Looks Dream Sleep Brain Relax Contemplating Time Of Need

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.”

Has Beens Given Race Brain Quiet Sunshine Elation Quiet Place

Book:The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters

Source: The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters

“I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.”

Ifs Ends Helping Brain Too Much Late Connections Comedian Entertaining Plates Spinning Adhd Spinning Plates

Author:Rory Bremner

“Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.”

Age Hours Brain Poverty Loneliness Healthy Despair Projects Optimism Obstacles Enormous Old Age Enlightened Enlightening New Projects

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

Knows Pain Process Deals Brain Compassion Evolution Evidence Species Speed Faster Seconds Physical Pain Mental Pain

Author:Antonio Damasio

“There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.”

Mind Body Brain

Author:Antonio Damasio

“In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.”

Mind Self Simple Pay Attention Brain Principles Creatures Who We Are Abstraction

Author:Antonio Damasio

“When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.”

Looks Persons Body Faces Emotion Brain Behavior Skins Collections Posture

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.”

Way Kids Young Used Brain Surgery Brain Surgery

Author:Tom T. Hall

“When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent to rebirth, it is therefore impossible for him to gather sound material with which to build a brain of stable construction.”

Body Passion Next Sound Brain Impossible Materials Seeds Atoms Construction Stable Rebirth Descent

Book:Occult principles of health and healing

Source: Occult principles of health and healing

“Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.”

Ifs Way Littles Enough Belief Bits Brain Path Teacher Trouble Journey Little Bit Mess Mathematical Logical Bad Teacher

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.”

Writing Two Different Use Brain Half Audience Adults

Author:Sara Shepard

“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”

“The brain happens to be a meat machine.”

Happens Brain Machines Meat

Author:Marvin Minsky

“How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.”

Men Heart Beautiful Stars Brain Study Creation Praying Rose Creator Senses I Pray

Book:Samarkand

Source: Samarkand

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Helping Voice Forget Brain Picks Tricks Acquire Urges Destination Perfume Noisy

Author:Alan Kay

“I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”

“Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.”

Source: To make the deaf hear: ideology and programme of Bhagat Singh and his comrades

“We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.”

Needs Self Humanity Individual Process Brain Complexity Chemicals Exceed Processing Arts And Humanities

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.”

Matter Play Chance Levels Powerful Brain Roles Serious Personality Consequence Income Chemicals Soup

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.”

Girl Brain Environment Becoming Active Classroom Favour

Author:Michael Gurian

“Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.”

Children Two Soul Body Care Brain Five Depends Development Attachment Receiving Bonding Caregivers

Book:The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters

Source: The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters

“In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.”

Ifs Brain Instruments Singers Hierarchy

Author:Nellie McKay

“Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.”

Thinking Giving Song Felt Walks Healing Brain Path Tears Battle Claims Brave Shed Battle Of Life

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?”

Energy Brain Internet Connections Fuel Employee Why Not Internet Connection

Author:Shawn Achor

“Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.”

World Choices Process Brain Resources Finite Happiness Is A Choice Processors

Author:Shawn Achor

“Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.”

Able Brain Cat

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug”

Ifs Feels Doe Might Causes Brain Garden Leap Quantum Triggers Quantum Mechanics Slugs

Book:Atheism and Theism

Source: Atheism and Theism

“A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.”

People Thinking Forget Brain Concepts Forgiving Handicaps Forgive And Forget Forget Everything

Author:Ishmael Beah

“I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.”

Thinking Brain Intelligent

Author:Keith Johnstone

“I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.”

World Way Wells Ideas Brain Modern Machines Function

Author:Bernard Beckett

“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”

Mind Asks Social Brain Areas Function Dues Height Meaningless Psychiatry Width Rectangles

Author:Leon Eisenberg

“Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.”

Helping Growth Brain Function Including Helpful Nerves Viruses Immune Compounds Mushrooms Nutrients Enhancement Beta Brain Function

Author:Paul Stamets

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