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“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.”

Source: La bâtarde: an autobiography

“Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.”

Thinking Children Use Brain Taught Capacity Discouraged Daydreaming

Author:Tony Buzan

“Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.”

Thinking Facts Understanding Imagination Memories Brain Teach Association Irrelevant Linear Think Of Me

Author:Tony Buzan

“I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.”

Thinking Body Happens Brain Pathways

Author:Amy Hardie

“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.”

Thinking Knows World Way Trying I Can Dream Might Process Deals Brain Five Information Concepts Senses Sequence Referring Five Senses

Author:Amy Hardie

“I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.”

Thinking Process Growth Brain Accepting Embrace Accepting Change Embrace Change

Author:Diane Keaton

“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

“Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.”

Thinking Giving Song Felt Walks Healing Brain Path Tears Battle Claims Brave Shed Battle Of Life

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.”

People Thinking Forget Brain Concepts Forgiving Handicaps Forgive And Forget Forget Everything

Author:Ishmael Beah

“I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.”

Thinking Brain Intelligent

Author:Keith Johnstone

“The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.”

Thinking Eye Ability Brain Beams Of Light

Author:Daniel Mazia

“Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!”

Thinking Use Brain Better Than You

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.”

“I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.”

Thinking Important Real Self Song Easy Brain Keys Happenings Guitar Real Things Transcendental Mediation Hypnosis

Author:John Fogerty

“I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."”

People Thinking Made Problem Brain Approach Twenties Solve Norm Changing My Life

Author:Chris Hardwick

“my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.”

Thinking Brain Darkness Solitude Thoughtful Blank Hung My Thoughts Desertion

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“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

“In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought”

Thinking Secret Brain Thoughtful

Book:The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition

Source: The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

“The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.”

Thinking Brain License Alleys

Author:Joss Whedon

“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.”

People Thinking Way Trying Certain Fighting Realizing Deals Brain Accepting Weak Uncontrollable

Author:Jon Stewart

“I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.”

Thinking Humans Doe Made Brain Emotional Normal Autism Variation Abnormal

Author:Temple Grandin

“I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always liked about animation, particularly abstract animation. You go from the idea to execution, straight from your brain. It's like when you hear someone playing an instrument, and you feel the direct connection between the instrument and his brain, because the instrument becomes an extension of his arms and fingers. It's like a scanner of the brain and thought process that you can watch, or hear.”

Thinking Way Feels Ideas Process Brain Watches Arms Direct Connections Instruments Fingers Abstract Truthful Execution Extensions Animation Thought Process

Author:Michel Gondry

“Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced into their electrochemical equivalents in the body. You could eat the healthiest meal on the planet, but if you’re thinking toxic thoughts the digestion of your food goes down and your fat storage metabolism can go up. Likewise, you could be eating a nutritionally challenged meal, but if your head and heart are in the right place, the nutritive power of your food will be increased.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Body Brain Planets Judgment Eating Shame Down And Guilt Fats Meals Toxic Right Place Storage Digestion Metabolism Head And Heart Stressors

Author:Marc David

“I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.”

Thinking Kind Use Reality Sides Answers Brain Creative Music Is Lonely Relate Isolated

Author:Laura Marling

“The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.”

Thinking Persons Action Brain Errors Committed Good Faith Good Actions

Book:Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“Our brain needs comfort. When you irritate it, you cannot think.”

Thinking Needs Brain Comfort

Author:Zoran

“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.”

Thinking May Mean Form Reading Brain Technology Possibility Communication Habit Structure Available Online Communication Technology

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.”

Thinking Way Whole Able Brain Picks Simplicity Things To Do Folly Tunes Categories Sensible Bats Recognizing Distinguished

Author:Charlie Munger

“As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.”

Thinking Men Light Eye Universe Energy Force Brain Elements Fundamentals Dust Perceive Constructive Ribbons Specks Seaweed Stellar Ferns

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.”

“Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.”

People Thinking Attention Brain Focus Subjects Genius Intelligence

Author:Esther Hicks

“All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.”

Thinking Looks Eye Walks Brain Teacher Teaching Neighborhood

Author:Ani DiFranco

“People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.”

People Thinking Differences Brain Watches Too Much Dying Tvs Huge Internet Free Speech Watching Tv

Book:Better Than Sex

Source: Better Than Sex

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

Thinking Three Easy Views Brain Four Evolution Point Of View Mathematical Dimensions

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.”

Thinking Would Be Running Difficult Memories Brain Consciousness Computer Program Cease Turned Off Neural Networks

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical.”

Thinking Brain Heroin Junkie Hardworking

Author:Jeet

“I have no bone loss, no brain loss, I have a lot of energy and a lot of strength. My heart is perfect so I think I'm more ready than I would have been in my 20s, honest to God.”

Thinking Heart Has Beens Energy Loss Perfect Brain Honest Strength Ready My Heart Bones

Author:Suzanne Somers

“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.”

Thinking Long War Hate Next Brain Drink Drug Singing Okay I Hate Bud Dope War On Drugs Hypocritical Just Say No

Author:Bill Hicks

“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.”

People Thinking Giving Years Mean Littles Brain Issues Five Planets Thousand Years Ago Environmental Thousand Years Stewardship

Author:Douglas Coupland

“It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Brain Known Computer Tables Cells Periodic Table

Author:Edward Boyden

“Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.”

Thinking Has Beens Art Soul Hands Brain Struggle Growing Up Growing Musician Painter My Soul Translate Canvas

Author:Anne Sweeney

“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.”

“I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can’t understand and your brain has to adapt... We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it’s how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.”

Thinking Men Deals Brain Fate Mystery Twists Measure Of A Man Curveballs Twist Of Fate

Author:Larry Fessenden

“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 think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.”

Ifs Thinking May Passion Brain Areas Musical Criminals Damage Traits Emergence Suppressing Seizures Eruption

Author:Oliver Sacks

“I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.”

Thinking Trying Brain Internet Capacity Scripture Contradiction Ants

Author:Rick Warren

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