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“Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?”

Heart Artist Space Secret Brain Creation Evolution Function Chosen All Time Regions Nurture Time And Space Penetrate Activate Primeval Secret Places

Book:Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.”

World Believe Real Universe Brain Events Objects Illusion Prison Currents Surround

Author:Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

“Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.”

Heart Doe Young Brain Conservative

Author:Winston Churchill

“Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.”

Heart Hands Brain Fields Economics Deeper Intellect Occupation Engineering Flocks

Author:Dick Armey

“Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.”

Men Brain Becoming Anxiety All Things Busy Busy Man

Author:Andre Gide

“My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.”

Dream Joy Wish Brain Youth Sorrow Lays Ships Piano Intimate Sailor My Wish Impassioned

Book:An Artist's Journey: Lettres D'un Bachelier Es Musique, 1835-1841

Source: An Artist's Journey: Lettres D'un Bachelier Es Musique, 1835-1841

“The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.”

Feels Wells Brain Worst Stupid Boring Awful Bored Resigned Worst Day

Book:Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.”

Author:Jean Houston

“Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.”

Mind Fall Brain Open Mind Keep An Open Mind

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.”

Want Humans Sometimes Brain Virtue Victory Skills Lawyer Admirable Human Brain

Author:Robert Wright

“I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.”

People Way Feels Long Care Wish Simple Party Brain Half Opinion Cutting Quiet Very Good Tongue Shy Leaving Me Introverted Half Way

Author:Jack White

“I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.”

Want Turns Brain Television Internet Convinced Places You Go

Author:Steve Jobs

“Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.”

Men Heart Kind May Stills Helping Use Inspiration Brain Grace Duty Brave Ill Excuse Faithful Brave Man Versatile Exemplary

Book:The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Source: The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

“There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.”

Way Hands Brain Variation Palin Brain Power

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.”

Purpose Force Brain Supplies

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.”

Ideas Turns Sound Brain Tvs Good Ideas Blank Turn Off

Author:Sam Ewing

“Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.”

Ideas Brain Meetings Graves

Author:Dave Barry

“You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.”

People Has Beens Two Reason Hands Given Born Brain Half Lifetime Legs Karma Decent Two Hands

Author:Glenn Hoddle

“Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.”

Littles Country Brain Conversation Bread Chemistry Crowded Labs Neurons

Book:An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.”

Book Causes Brain Conversation

Author:George Johnson

“Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.”

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Stories are flight simulators for our brains.”

Stories Brain Flight

Author:Chip Heath

“The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.”

Thinking Men Brain Average Average Man Funny Women Funny Men Funny Men And Women Funny Strong Women Average Girl

Author:Mark Twain

“Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.”

Humans Wells Brain Emotional Depends Reasoning Sophisticated Rationality

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.”

Men Mind Kind Doe Brain Army Appeals Controlled Orientation Electrical Stimulation

Author:Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

“To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.”

Years Littles Hands Games Brain Five Produce Computer Laughter Sight Affair Screens Staring Five Years Solitary Depressing Mice Exposure Five Year Olds Computer Games

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.”

Brain Cold Folly Companion Inseparable

Author:Galen

“The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.”

Use Certain Effort Brain Drug Thousand Normal Yoga Resources Method Technique Permit Reduction Exaggeration Fractions Clumsy

Author:Tom Robbins

“Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.”

Giving Should Littles Brain Thousand Six Dollars Investing Breasts Surgeons

Author:Mike Royko

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

Years Brain Meaningful

Author:John Hodgman

“I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.”

Night Dark Brain Morning Wake Up

Author:Alice Sebold

“I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.”

People Ifs Needs Mind Believe Self Prayer Brain Moral Nice Praying Don't Believe Obsessed If There Is A God Self Obsessed Change God Weightlifting

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.”

Shows Film Turns Loses Brain Seeing Blood Horror Killing Screens Monsters Gore Horror Film

Author:Raul Garcia

“One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end.”

Ifs Way Want Ends Whole Brain One Thing Reviews Articles Bad Reviews

Author:Jim Shaw

“I'm super hard on myself anytime I think of an idea for a collaboration. I will rack my brain trying to think of one. I wait for the right person. It stresses me to think that I'd do a collaboration with someone and not make it the best possible opportunity.”

Thinking Trying Persons Ideas Hard Opportunity Waiting Brain Stress Collaboration Right Person Racks

Author:Lilly Singh

“Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.”

Stories Problem Rooms Brain Quality Sitting Notes Bunch

Author:Loren Bouchard

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”

Inspirational Funny Science Brain Education Empty Difficulty Emptiness Rubbish True Believer Empty Heads

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.”

Looks Reality Brain Full Potential Untrustworthy

Author:James Altucher

“Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.”

People May Mean Chance Brain Listening Riddle Unconquerable

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.”

Use Brain Perception Tools Unhappy Who We Are

Author:James Altucher

“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success”

People Needs Kind Important Certain Loss Ability Emotion Brain Crazy Discipline Terrible Adversity Extremes Driven Investors Irrational Temperament Going Crazy

Author:Charlie Munger

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

Brain Cutting Surgery Bangs Brain Surgery Hatchet

Author:Joanne Greenberg

“My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.”

Feelings Belief Brain My Thoughts

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.”

Heart Answers Brain Refuse

Author:Rob Kall

“Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.”

Mind Process Brain Creativity Disease Notion

Author:Thomas M. Disch

“We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.”

Heart Brain Prove Empty Satisfied Rooted Invited Speculation Knowledge Of God

Author:John Calvin

“Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.”

Brain Vision Built Bills Specialists Hicks

Author:Tom Waits

“Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.”

Spirit Views Brain Sun Gains Wine Possession Rising Mist Gloomy Gladness Dullness Vapor Gaiety

Book:Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

Source: Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales

“I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.”

Ifs Needs Children Book Past Brain Fine Civilization Convinced Tunes Collectives Children's Books

Book:Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups

Source: Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups

“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on”