“Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.” MenNeedsCertainBrainCards Author:Jason Babin
“People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.” PeopleThinkingKindCertainFallBrainClearMusicalPatternsSpeedMelody Author:John Frusciante
“I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.” TryingMindKindPersonsHelpingRealityCertainResultsBrainWatchesTvsConsequenceYou ChoosePierceReality TvTappingPiercings Author:Elizabeth Banks
“To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.” GivingHeartMeanCertainEnergyAttentionBrainFocusWanderConcentrationAttending Book:The Flame of Attention Source: The Flame of Attention
“Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day -- at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.” PeopleCertainBrainBloodActivityPressureMealsInjuryPetAdoptedBlood PressureCaregiversTime Of DayBrain InjuryTraumatic Brain Injury Author:Karen Allen
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.” PeopleIfsWritingSoulSometimesHardEnoughHappensJoyCertainReadingUnderstandingVoiceBrainSourceTasteEatingHard TimesUnbelievableCandyEnough TimeForksTuningReading Or Writing Author:David Foster Wallace
“Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.” HumansLooksMatterCertainEnergyBrainShapesScientistPatternsExperimentsGeometricGeometric Shapes Author:Tom DeLonge
“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.” BodyLawCertainBitsBrainSadnessSubjectsFlowMachinesClockNervesChemicalsElectricityMechanicAcidElectricalElectronsArousal Book:Einstein's Dreams Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.” ReasonCertainVoiceJusticeCommonSecretBrainLordChiefsCellsReignChief Justice Author:Charles Churchill
“What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It implies that telepathic perceptions bubble up into awareness from the unconscious and are probably processed in the brain in the same way that we generate images in dreams. And thus telepathic “images” are far less certain than sensory-driven images and subject to distortion.” WayDreamCertainBrainModernSubjectsAwarenessPerceptionDrivenVisualsUnconsciousBubblesNeuroscienceDistortionCognitiveSensoryCompatibleVisual Images Book:Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality Source: Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
“I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantSometimesCertainDifficultInterestingBrainConditionsCommunicationAppreciateMy FamilyImportanceCommunicateContactInteresting ThingsDementiaAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Elliott Gould
“People always say, when did you realize you were funny? And I think it's not that you realize you were funny. It's that you're brain works in a certain way. And I don't think that that's - I think in some respects it's uncontrollable, and you can either accept it and deal with it and hone it or you can try to fight it. And I was too weak to fight it.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingCertainFightingRealizingDealsBrainAcceptingWeakUncontrollable Author:Jon Stewart
“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.” IfsMenYearsWellsCharacterRunningYoungCertainNextWealthPoorResultsBehindsBrainCompanySecurityHe ManProveImportanceInvestmentFinancialBe GoodExcellentPrimeEarningRidiculeLikelihoodCombiningFinancial Results Author:B. C. Forbes
“Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainSongBrainFindingsPianoStrongestCollaborationBetter Than YouCombiningPlaying Piano Author:Charlyne Yi
“I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.” PeopleThinkingWayArtMomentsCertainChallengesBrainGenerationsInvolvedBiggerFingersConsensusDefiningOur GenerationDoodling Author:Edward Norton
“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.” UseCertainEffortBrainDrugThousandNormalYogaResourcesMethodTechniquePermitReductionExaggerationFractionsClumsy Author:Tom Robbins
“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” PeopleNeedsKindImportantCertainLossAbilityEmotionBrainCrazyDisciplineTerribleAdversityExtremesDrivenInvestorsIrrationalTemperamentGoing Crazy Author:Charlie Munger
“Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine...” WayDoeLightCertainBrainCompanyStudySugarCocaineLight Up Author:Michael Moss
“Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"” PeopleWayWellsHeartMayPersonsDifferentBodyUsedCertainDiesAsksSpeakBrainParticularDiedDefinitionsAriseBuddhistSpokesMisunderstandingConfusingParts Of The Body Author:Dalai Lama
“I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.” WritingKindCharacterCertainActorsBrainPiecesPicksPercentMethodSubconscious Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentCertainSpeakBrainProduceTypeGeniusIllnessMental IllnessDifferent WaysRelatedDifferent KindsWay Of ThinkingWiring Author:H. A. Berlin
“If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksPersonsTwoWholeMightCertainDifferencesBrainAreasTestsDamageSevereDeficitCognitiveWhole Picture Author:H. A. Berlin
“Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.” WorldMayTwoSometimesSeemsCertainIndividualBrainWonderEssentialsWeaknessOpponentsDamageTennisBoxingTimingBeatenAttackingStaminaKinshipSometimes I WonderProbingWorlds ApartFootwork Author:Bud Collins
“Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into swans, there are rebellious kids that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.” IfsFeelsChildrenKidsCertainTurnsBrainSubjectsPlanetsSeriousPraisePatientUglySpeedEvolveYour ChildrenHave FaithBe PatientRebelliousInadequateInsultingInnovatorsSwansHardcoreDucklingsUnresponsiveUgly Duckling Author:Suzy Kassem
“In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.” KindSeemsCertainBrainCreativityConditionsChaosMidstTriggersAdhdDisorganization Author:David Neeleman
“There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.” ThinkingLooksReasonCertainAbilityBrainRateReason Why Author:Steven Soderbergh
“There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.” PersonsUseCertainTurnsBrainToolsClassicNerdObsessing Author:Chris Hardwick
“If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.” IfsWorldWayBodyCertainResultsBrainQualityCompassionMeditationAmountMethodImpactTrainPerceiveEach DayNew WaysOur ThoughtsNeuroscienceEvaluateCultivatingVerify Author:Matthieu Ricard
“When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't form by a certain age, they're not going to.” IfsChildrenAgeFormYoungCertainUnderstandingBrainStimulusYoung ChildrenPromptsSynapses Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me, and they're still coming from my brain and my set of obsessions. I think that no matter how different I tried to make them, there were just these certain questions that I just kept circling back to as I was writing. I think they were the ones I was really swept up in in that decade.” ThinkingWritingStillsDifferentMatterCertainBrainDecadesI RealizedObsessionLooking Back Author:Molly Antopol