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“I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.”

Made Actors Brain Focus Distraction Surroundings Imaginative

Author:Dennis Haysbert

“So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" You know what I'm talking about. I turn on the television and I'm like, "This is so bad, but I cannot get my fucking eyes off of it." It's not good.”

Giving Shows Reality Brain Stupid Right Now Give Me Ass Dumb Wow Reality Shows Stupidest

Author:Michael Pitt

“Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.”

Way Writing Trying Different Problem Happens Brain Try Your Best

Author:Craig Zobel

“There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.”

Brain Careers

Author:Kevin Morby

“I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.”

Way Wells Enough Use Actors Brain Directors Tools Let Me Generous Bongs

Author:Kelly Masterson

“I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.”

Different Ends Night Sleep Brain Trouble Personality Stimulus Arcs Processing Trouble Sleeping

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.”

Different Use Memories Brain Depends Importance Speed Stores Frequency Redundancy

Author:Bill Nye

“If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...”

Ifs Way Reason Body Brain Information Tables Speed Stores Your Body Chemist Periodic Table

Author:Bill Nye

“Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.”

Want Numbers Brain Tasks Phones Stores Phone Numbers

Author:Bill Nye

“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.”

Brain Audience Television Sticks Holes Viewers

Author:James Purdy

“People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.”

People Lost Brain Capacity Labels Subtlety

Author:Barbara Hulanicki

“The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.”

Ideas Stories Stuff Brain Love Story Sparks

Author:Jon M. Chu

“When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.”

Feels Ideas Action Fun Sides Brain Like You Hero Happenings Window Nervous No Idea Logical Stressed Stressed Out Action Heroes

Author:Katia Winter

“Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.”

Thinking Trying Inspiration Brain Creativity Figures Information Confused Leading Me Inspiration And Creativity Misinterpretation I'm Confused

Author:Michel Gondry

“There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.”

Brain Special Football Chaos Allowing Splits Messi Slow Motion

Author:Carles Puyol

“You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.”

Helping Brain Blood Arms Walking Philosopher Breathing Greek Circulation Greek Philosopher

Author:Paul Dudley White

“After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”

Years Brain Research Empty Scientist Tongue Harlem Spanish Harlem

Author:Francis Quarles

“Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.”

Men Stills Running Brain Fool Bigger Intelligent Proof Admire Superiority

Author:Dorothea Dix

“There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.”

People Knows Jobs Brain Media Prove Surfer Prove Myself

Author:Kato Kaelin

“When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.”

Use Brain Intelligence

Author:Paul Frank Baer

“Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.”

Ideas Brain Consequence Careful Reaching Lodges

Author:Eric Metaxas

“Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!”

Use Today Dies Brain Wonder Bed Apps

Author:Lewis Black

“If marketers could uncover what is going on in our brains that makes us choose one brand over another-what information passes through our brain's filter and what information doesn't-well, that would be key to truly building brands of the future.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Brain Information Building Keys Brands Filters Marketers Building A Brand

Author:Martin Lindstrom

“We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.”

World Enough Brain Resources

Author:Jacque Fresco

“The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.”

Heart Brain

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I worked on Crash, the TV series, some Disney shows like Get Connected, Brain Surge & iCarly on Nickelodeon, but Make It Pop is my very first lead role in a series.”

Firsts Shows Brain Roles Tvs Series Pops Connected Crash Tv Series Nickelodeon

Author:Megan Lee

“You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.”

Needs Littles Brain Camps Washing Herds Brainwashing

Author:Bill Maher

“I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.”

Want Different Law Loses Brain Dangerous Concepts Harm Libertarian Aspiration Smoking Diverse Stopping Free Society

Author:James D. Watson

“So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.”

Way Giving Heart Children Whole Care Mother Community Brain Moral Birth Healthy Highest Claims Immense Margins Vigor Giving Birth Physical Strength Healthy Children

Author:Frances Power Cobbe

“Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity.”

Bigs Passion Brain Focus Fans Integrity Charlie Resumes

Author:Warren Buffett

“Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.”

Ifs Light Levels Brain Activity Introvert High Level

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.”

Brain Talent Appreciate Get Better

Author:Rashida Jones

“While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.”

Hard Moments Eye Space Brain Air Poet Huge Battle Empty Horse Harmony Wounds Rhythm His Eyes Dancer Sparks Sculptors Empty Space

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”

Humans Mean Growth Brain Childhood Birth Shapes Intense Human Brain

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.”

Needs Challenges Brain Evidence Connections Unusual Repetition Novelty Stimulus

Author:Robert Winston

“Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?”

People Brain Ill Organs

Author:Ruby Wax

“Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.”

Men States Hands Perfect United Brain United States Ships

Book:The Maritime History of Massachusetts

Source: The Maritime History of Massachusetts

“An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.”

Ifs Men Brain Honest Idiot Honest Man Crooks

Book:The Lower Depths

Source: The Lower Depths

“A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.”

Sometimes Reason Brain Truth Is Scientist Adaptive

Author:Steven Pinker

“Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.”

Brain Honor

Author:Louise Glück

“We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.”

“...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.”

Want Brain Apocalypse

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.”

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.”

Firsts Made Might Found Brain Months First Time Magazines

Author:William Fitzsimmons

“Don't confuse brains with a bull market.”

Brain Bulls Bull Markets

Author:Humphrey B. Neill

“Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain”

Men Heart Lasts Brain Every Man

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”

Firsts Ideas Night Brain Impossible Day And Night

Book:Thirty-two Stories

Source: Thirty-two Stories

“Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.”

“Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.”

World Attention Brain

Author:Margaret Mead

“...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Hard Problem Felt Brain Week Teaching First Time Afternoon Friday Cables Jumpers Friday Afternoon

Author:Stephen King

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