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“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.”

“Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.”

Giving Sometimes Brain Talent

Author:Mike Ditka

“An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.”

Sometimes Artist Brain Scientist Flair

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.”

Sometimes Body Hours Brain Bed

Author:Peter James

“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.”

“Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.”

Doe Sometimes Brain Trouble Absolutes Size Contracts Elephants Negotiation Whales Outwitting

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.”

Men Way Said Sometimes Mother Deals Brain Equal Best Way Smarter Mules

Book:The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.”

“Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.”

Way Want Trying Book Sometimes Character Stories Problem Dream Memories Forget Brain Figures Like You Solve Capture Mixtures Good Book Our Memories Hallucinations Archetype I Like You

Author:Ali Banisadr

“Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.”

Trying Sometimes Moments Together Brain Months Hundred Etc That Moment Back Together Navigate Blueprints Puzzling

Author:Sarah Kay

“Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.”

Heart Sometimes Brain Tedious Whimsical

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.”

Ifs Thinking Long Sometimes Enough Use Brain Internals Cosmetics

Book:My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences

Source: My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences

“Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.”

Men Sometimes Seems Sports Brain Accepting Ready Athlete Surgeons Brain Surgeons

Book:Women and Sports: 2

Source: Women and Sports: 2

“Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.”

People Knows Sometimes Can Do Brain Wonder Comedy Groups Special Curiosity Fortitude Sometimes I Wonder Ethnic Groups

Author:Debra Granik

“I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.”

Mind Sometimes Inspiration Difficult Brain Empty Incredibles Caring

Author:Yoko Ono

“People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Sometimes Done Artist My Own Brain Careers Know How Team Stupid Industry Involved Sexy Conferences You Re Stupid Conference Calls

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.”

Knows Sometimes Dream Brain Throat Flood Dissatisfied Discontentment

Author:David McCullough

“I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.”

Writing Sometimes Happens Brain Pages Coffee Surrender Shops Midnight Coffee Shop Syntax

Author:Marvin Bell

“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.”

“I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Helping Voice Forget Brain Picks Tricks Acquire Urges Destination Perfume Noisy

Author:Alan Kay

“Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.”

Source: To make the deaf hear: ideology and programme of Bhagat Singh and his comrades

“It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.”

Writing Ideas Sometimes Action Brain Careers Nice Painting Serious Helpful Hobbies

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.”

Ifs World Writing Trying Real Sometimes My Own Brain Music Is Supposed To Be Entertaining Trying To Change

Author:Guy Clark

“Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.”

People Sometimes Asks Results Brain Produce Favour Cunning Knocking

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is a relatively quiescent growth period in which most of the body takes a rest from growing while the brain continues to mature. This period of life is general referred to as childhood or, sometimes, latency.”

Humans Two Sometimes Body Life Is Growth Brain Growing Childhood Periods Majors Mature Twelve Fifteen Eleven Sixteen Infancy

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.”

Mind Long Sometimes Dream Behinds Brain Forgotten Casts Fancy Forgotten Things

Author:John Dryden

“My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.”

Thinking Sometimes Night Fighting Brain Creative

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.”

People Sometimes Funny Names Wish Brain Comedy Smart Intelligence Witty Call Me Compliment Hilarious Being Smart Spelling Brian Wordplay Smartness Name Calling Funny Clever

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.”

Persons Sometimes Brain Doubt Chemistry Better Person

Author:John Goodman

“It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along quicker cause they'll come up with something and you'll be like, "It would have taken me forever to get to that point!" Because you're talking together, your brains are moving faster.”

People Ideas Sometimes Together Moving Causes Interesting Brain Talking Forever Taken Come Up Faster

Author:Charlyne Yi

“When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.”

Way Writing Sometimes Together Fall Three Hours Brain Morning Novel Four Ten Lunch Midnight Falling Apart Deadline Rewriting

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.”

Knows Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Turns Can Do Hours Brain Eighteen Turn Off

Author:Aaron Zigman

“Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.”

Want Sometimes States Body Sleep Brain Very Good Your Body Clinicals Antidepressants

Author:Adam Ant

“When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.”

Ifs Writing Kind Has Beens Sometimes Lasts Can Do Challenges Brain Minutes Let Me Complexes Last Minute

Author:Glenn Close

“On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Sometimes Would Be Left Brain Hearing Wander Remembered Tedious Monotonous Thinking Deeply

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.”

Needs Should Sometimes Stories Brain Particular Direct Opposites Sensations

Author:Edward Norton

“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

“The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.”

Thinking Book Sometimes Would Be Reading Mistake Brain Sky Dangerous Reader Paper Ordinary Library Tricks Privacy Shelves Ink Printed Mundane Commonplace Fireworks Chained

Book:Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

“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

“I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.”

Thinking Trying Humans Sometimes Secret Brain Rational Supposed To Be Make Sense Logical Human Brain Secret Places

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.”

Writing Sometimes Reality Brain Checks Cash

Author:Adam Savage

“It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.”

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“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.”

“I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.”

Want Needs Sometimes Brain Proud Blow Meaningless Counting

Author:Mickey Rourke

“Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.”

Knows Sometimes Play Brain Goes On Bunch Cds Shuffle Random Things

Author:Bette Midler

“We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.”

People Thinking Sometimes Reality Animal Brain Smart Instinct Over You Capability Smart People Really Smart Animal Instinct

Author:Cristian Machado

“You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.”

Wells Sometimes Song Brain Make Sense Quartets

Author:Branford Marsalis

“For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Sometimes Bigs Left Brain Wonder Changed Personality Damage Sometimes I Wonder Finishers

Author:Michael Lesy

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