Best brain & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”

Feels Firsts Long Country Brain Growing Happened Projects Long Time First Time Educational Educated Improving 1960s Drains Brain Drain

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Stills Brain Boys Summer First Time Albums Endless Beach This Day Bypass Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered? And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically conclusions in various ways — which, by and large, are useful — but which often malfunction? One approach is rationality… And the other is to evaluate the psychological factors that cause subconscious conclusions — many of which are wrong.”

Way Firsts Kind Two Use Causes Interest Levels Brain Influence Involved Approach Track Various Psychological Factors Conclusion Analysis Subconscious Rationality Evaluate Malfunction

Author:Charlie Munger

“To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.”

Want Firsts Science Brain Food Letters Preserves Consideration Helpful Scholarship Sympathetic

Book:Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Source: Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan

“Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.”

Inspirational Firsts Brain Honesty Indispensable

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe. I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”

“After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.”

Way Firsts Two Feelings Able Film Motivation Brain Thirds Instinct Commit Conclusion Crap Brainwashed

Book:Clint Eastwood: interviews

Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews

“When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.”

Source: Dance for Two: Essays

“Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.”

Years Firsts Humans Brain Half Virtue Unique Links Fossils Apes Human Brain Skeletons Hunted Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.”

Knows Needs Trying Firsts Eye Kids Walks Brain Mad Library Censorship

Author:Stephen King

“Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.”

Firsts Stills Real Eye Pleasure Brain Knowing Taken Seeing Honest Wall Travel Shoes Senses Rome Organs Masterpiece Leather Exhaustion Through The Eyes Jaded Sobbing Infatuated

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”

Firsts Religion Brain Half Five Ten Benefits Priests Commandments Adequate Lame Ten Commandments Half Truth

Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.”

People Ifs Thinking World Firsts Reality Brain Struggle Too Much Information Negative Threat Noise Receiving Too Much Information

Author:Shawn Achor

“Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.”

Firsts Turns Brain Judgment Complicated Surrender Agents Clients Turn Off Planners Coma

Book:Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

“Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.”

Firsts Brain Preserves Editors Looking Good Corpses

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.”

Way Firsts Two Enough Facts Dies Three Brain First Time Tragedy Settling Expenses Three Things Cocaine Puddles Sinuses

Book:Eve's Hollywood

Source: Eve's Hollywood

“I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.”

Want Firsts Heart Book Soul Bigs Care Passion Brain Written Don't Care Warm I Don't Care Fringe Crowded Garments Heart And Soul Felicity Bursting Heart And Brain

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like a cross between having a pelvic examination while applying for a small business loan. First dates should require anesthesia, and in some states they do.”

Feels Should Firsts Looks Different States Brain Information Crosses Dating Practicals Portions Small Business Intuitive Loan Examination First Date Anesthesia

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.”

“I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.”

Trying Firsts Made Hard Felt Brain Watches First Time Screens Staring Day To Day Headache Edited Timelines

Author:John C. Reilly

“And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.”

Thinking Men Firsts Language Brain Shapes Speech Tongue Flesh Thoughtful Twists Idiom

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.”

Ifs Firsts Brain Hats Magician

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.”

Firsts Seems Sound Brain Sight Smell First Love

Author:Pete Munro

“Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.”

Thinking Firsts Book Humor Funny Brain Doors Drug Thousand Ten Perception Critics Melting Huxley Doors Of Perception

Author:Bill Bailey

“I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.”

Years Firsts Believe Two Facts Hands I Believe Brain Teach Students Paper Connections I Believe In Pencils Drafting

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.”

“At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.”

People Firsts Form Dies Brain Ready First Time Soldier Finished Good Friend Not Ready Wiring Facing Life

Author:Sebastian Junger

“I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.”

Feels Trying Firsts Persons Real Brain

Author:Brother Ali

“Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.”

Firsts Humans Doe Moving Language Emotion Brain Beats Areas Dancing Species Depth Musical Lifts Height Power Of Music First Date

Book:Migraine

Source: Migraine

“Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.”

Firsts Has Beens Brain Information Recognition Colour Flash

Author:Catherine Taylor

“I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.”

Knows Mind Firsts Real Enough Whole Body Happens Moving Memories Brain Movement Locked Vague Rehearsal Accompany Real Work

Author:Angela Lansbury

“When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.”

Firsts Brain Darkness Possibility Europe Infinite Infinite Possibilities

Book:Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.”

Thinking World Want Firsts Kind Persons Whole Moments Turns Fall Brain Love You Kissing Projects First Time Blind Falling In Love Whole Life Hug Again And Again Blank Loving Someone

Author:Gaspar Noe

“The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.”

Mind Firsts Humans Brain Particular Symbols

Book:The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development

Source: The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development

“Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!”

Firsts Reason Use Culture Brain Myth

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.”

Firsts Brain Too Much Active Peace Within

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.”

Firsts Heart Stills Brain First Time Democrat Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Emo Philips

“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

“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

“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

“...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

“I mean, they clearly have a process of how they go about making their movies, and John Lasseter has been instrumental in implementing that process for all three studios with the Brain Trust and the way we work and the way we break stories and how it's all creative led. There are no executives in the room. So I think all of that is embraced unilaterally. But that's the first time I've heard of that.”

Thinking Way Firsts Mean Has Beens Stories Three Process Rooms Brain Break Creative Heard First Time Studios Executives Implementing

Author:Klay Hall

“There is a whole separate filmmaking team that's doing it, but that's part of what's great about the Brain Trust and about the inspiring leadership of John Lasseter. He leaves it up to that creative group of individuals to help each other elevate each thing that they're working on to only try to make it better and to share what you've learned on the first one.”

Trying Firsts Whole Helping Individual Brain Creative Groups Team Share Filmmaking Helping Each Other

Author:Klay Hall

“In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.”

Ifs World Way Mind Firsts Looks May States Interest Brain Known Buddhism Healthy First Time Enthusiasm State Of Mind Engagement Beginners Optimal

Author:Louis Cozolino

“There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.”

Firsts Humans Reason Seems Brain Study Design Divine Atheist Obvious Historian Psychologist Surgeons Sociologists Brain Surgeons Neurologists

Book:Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

Source: Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

“The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water. And the brain likes hierarchy. Starting with general concepts naturally leads to explaining information in a hierarchical fashion. You have to do the general idea first. And then you will see that 40 percent improvement in understanding.”

“The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.”

Want Firsts Made Beautiful Religious Brain Records Saws Effects Hair Band First Time Intelligent Cures Fascinating Concerts Lunch Rivals Religious Experience Cindy

Author:Jessicka

“Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.”

Firsts Made Two Success Brain Thirds Function Luck

Author:Richard Jeni

“I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.”

Want Firsts Book Brain Pieces Childhood Taught Months Complexes Piano Tape Surgery Disturbing Listening To Music Classical Music Brain Surgery

Author:Rosanne Cash

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