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“There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.”

Brain Labor Labour Division

Book:Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

Source: Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

“Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.”

Should Mind Littles Has Beens Whole Brain Quiet Blame Faults Average Excuse Superiors Great Minds

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.”

Giving Should Motivation Brain Should Have Proof Compulsion

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.”

Use Brain Theory Rough Quantum Translations Relativity Grease Quantum Theory Idiom

Author:Albert Einstein

“Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.”

Heart Body Brain Intelligence Breasts Wigs

Author:Dolly Parton

“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?”

Has Beens Water Brain Company Too Much Loneliness Pursuit Islands Emptiness Thirst Sailor

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing. Chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.”

Ifs Needs Should Hands Chance Brain Focus Phones Supposed To Be Chances Are

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.”

Today Brain Produce Docile

Book:Your Brain Is God

Source: Your Brain Is God

“We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.”

Reality Past Brain Study Instruments Constructs

Book:Change Your Brain

Source: Change Your Brain

“The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.”

Source: Evolutionary Agents

“It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.”

Men Littles Bits Brain Imagine Dangerous Fields Mets Little Bit Superiors Humiliating

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.”

Thinking Way Wells Answers Brain Consciousness Fiction Environment Computer Tools Science Fiction Partners Iron

Author:David Gerrold

“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

Ifs Needs Humans Grows Causes Realizing Pleasure Brain Comfortable Shots Empty Fundamentals Terror Satisfaction Urges Housewife Full Potential Nameless Schizophrenic Clinicals

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?”

Chance Brain Greater Blind Bones Noise Pilgrimage Crass

Book:Edwin Arlington Robinson

Source: Edwin Arlington Robinson

“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

Men Body Individual Brain Blood Figures Information Fundamentals Instinct Species Collectives Solitary Superiority Inferiority

Author:Philip Wylie

“Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning”

Brain Morning Drink Coffee

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.”

Want Different Beautiful Universe Brain Cry Particular Violin

Author:Peter Høeg

“In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.”

World Past Father Attention Brain My Thoughts Bronx

Author:Pete Wentz

“He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.”

Men Heart Earth Spirit Brain Lord Blood He Man Kings This Life Entering Advancing

Book:Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures

Source: Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures

“I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?”

Said Brain History Learning Television Keys Paper Broads Pessimism Stomach Decline Organs Papers Headlines Volatility

Author:Peter Lynch

“Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.”

Ifs Used Decision Brain Marriage Wife Married Canada Researchers

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

“Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.”

Matter Hands Action Turns Chance Brain Mankind Conjuring

Book:The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more

Source: The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more

“If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.”

Ifs Littles Social Behinds Brain Laughing Effects Machines Police Experiments Extras Dull Anarchy Officers Police Officer

Book:JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more

Source: JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more

“To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.”

Heart Brain Mad Sane

Book:Conversations with Wendell Berry

Source: Conversations with Wendell Berry

“The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.”

Doe Matter Form Energy Brain Information Activity Muscles Materialism Liver Present Day

Book:Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.”

“The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.”

“According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.”

Matter Differences Brain Study Amount Gray Twins Identical Fraternal Gray Matter

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.”

Needs Brain Heavy Lifting Heavy Lifting

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.”

People Long Has Beens Art Left Brain Creating Long Time Modernism Creating Art Left Brain

Author:David Luiz

“The female brain may confer distinctive economic advantages, to the benefit of all, and we should, therefore, pursue seriously having equal numbers of women in topic economic and financial posts. If we persist in having unequal numbers, then we should advantage the women and have a smaller percentage of men.”

Ifs Men Should May Numbers Brain Economic Equal Benefits Advantage Female Financial Pursue Posts Persist Topics Percentages Distinctive

Author:Semir Zeki

“I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.”

Made Strong Brain Greater Amount Greed Operations Ethical Suspicion Behaviour

Author:Semir Zeki

“Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?”

Doe Brain Satisfied Indifferent Exposure

Author:Semir Zeki

“Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.”

Reality Artist Brain Greater Substitutes Erase

Author:Semir Zeki

“I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.”

Brain Expectations Rewards Disappointment Centre

Author:Semir Zeki

“I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.”

Art Said Artist Suffering Results Views Effort Brain Creating Concepts Series Saint Works Of Art Translate Not Alone Synthetic

Author:Semir Zeki

“Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.”

Mind Form Given Brain Birth Achievement Intellect

Book:Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner

Source: Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner

“Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process.”

Process Levels Brain Sea Movement Higher Integrity Rage Higher Level Coherence Cohesion

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.”

Writing Ideas Lines Business Brain Successful Picks Mentor Proposal Bounce

Author:Cory Trepanier

“Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.”

Energy Force Brain Environment Clutter

Author:Carmine Gallo

“New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.”

Way Important Brain Information Prove Research Bullets Cognitive

Book:The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Source: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

“Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.”

Different Moments Courses Brain Patterns Constructs Exhaustion

Author:Guido Molinari

“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.”

Ideas Left Born Space Brain Seeing Painting Activity Shapes Structure Mood Realization Colour Entering Engaging Hemisphere

Author:Guido Molinari

“We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].”

Ability Attention Brain Tasks Praise Concentration Maps Lasting Divided Divides Lasting Change

Author:Norman Doidge

“We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.”

Might Culture Brain Evolve

Author:Norman Doidge

“Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.”

Ifs Long Use Loses Brain Exercise Sitting Areas Intellect Muscles Maps Impatient Use It Or Lose It

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”

Ifs Needs Long Important Effort Pay Attention Brain Knowledge Novel Youth Periods Areas Critical Lasting Surprising Initials Long Lasting

Author:Norman Doidge