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“When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don't make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they're going through. When you get older you think 'It's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.'”

Thinking Knows Ideas Young Actors Brain Laughing Insecurity Surgery Insecure Young Actors Brain Surgery

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Real Country Whole Body Brain Attitude Car Stupid Periods Activity Dear Scared Drivers Dear Friend Pavement Many Friends Change Your Attitude

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.”

Thinking Long Waiting Brain Silence Watches Periods Studios Recording Studio Dribble

Author:Jack Black

“Robin Williams is great; it's just like having a conversation when you're doing a scene with him really. It's just so relaxed on the set whenever he's around. Also he's just always telling jokes; he's always on. It must be funny for him though because he must think everyone's brain goes so much slower than his. He's working overtime on all these different ideas that pop into his head. Everyone else must feel miles behind!”

Thinking Feels Ideas Different Behinds Brain Scene Conversation Jokes Pops Miles Relaxed Robins Different Ideas

Author:Freddie Highmore

“Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.”

Thinking World Whole Brain Technology Wonderful Danger Available Whole World Fidelity

Author:Oliver Sacks

“There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I'm also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Body Happens Sleep Cities Brain Strange Pride Terrified Another Way Never Sleep Rotating

Author:Halsey

“When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.”

Thinking Way Giving Book Real Self Brain Products Civilization Reflection Capacity Agency Civilized Self Reflection Civilized Society

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.”

Thinking Helping Use Form Brain Duty Advantage Speed Tricks Poison Claws Camouflage

Author:George Lucas

“Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain.”

Thinking Mean Brain Overloaded

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I think the general population of people just don't think. It's actually proven that people just use the part of the brain they have to, to get through the day. They don't sit there and ponder over the big picture stuff.”

People Thinking Use Bigs Stuff Brain Population Proven Pondering Big Picture

Author:Mitch Lucker

“I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.”

Thinking Humans May Soul Would Be Literature Individual Brain Personality Aspect Silly Immortal Being Silly Human Personality

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“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

“In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.”

Thinking Knows Years Humans Ideas Reason Brain Demand Function Suspects Principal Doing You Leading Me Rationalize Lizards Human Reason

Author:Dave Hickey

“Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.”

Thinking Writing Trying Humans Art Problem Brain Practice Creative Activity Normal Arise Peculiar Human Activity Lizards

Author:Dave Hickey

“When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Problem Happens Eye Moving Left Memories Sleep Brain Happened Movement Amount Trauma Stores Associates Left And Right

Author:Matty Mullins

“Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.”

Thinking Writing Enough Moments Song Dark Brain Shots Ears Harder Originals Be Good Crafts Engaged Good Enough Listeners Single Mom

Author:Alex Goot

“I'm usually a panster and throw ideas down on computer the second they hit my brain. I even had to get off the treadmill to write down my ideas. It's a great place to 'zone out' and think about my plots and characters.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Character Brain Computer Zone Plot Treadmills

Author:Franny Armstrong

“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.”

Thinking Should Humans Important Different Courses Differences Brain Capacity Size Enormous Mice Human Brain Important Questions Vertebrates

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.”

Thinking Way Years Mean Lost Natural Forget Brain Four Planets Perspective Computer Losing Billions Organisms Natural History Years Of Life

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.”

Ifs Thinking Brain Millions Saws Walking Corpses

Author:Daniel Handler

“I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.”

Thinking Way Littles Play Might Bits Brain Easier Little Bit Arrangements

Author:Christoph Waltz

“When it comes to making more money, most people look at the world and see the same opportunities they've seen before: typically, a job. Because they don't awaken their mind and expand their vision, they don't see other opportunities. Yet opportunities do exist. So how do you change your thinking so you can see them? One way to jolt the brain out of its preconceived category thinking is to bombard it with new experiences.”

People Thinking World Way Mind Looks Jobs Opportunity Work Brain Vision One Way Categories More Money New Experiences

Author:Joe Vitale

“And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.”

Thinking Decision Walks Interesting Brain Journey Walking Legs Wander Decision Making Hiking Very Interesting Ants Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Kevin Kelly

“When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.”

Thinking Heart Soul States Might House Church Cities Brain Parks Halls Boston Harvard Heart Pounding Old Churches Fenway Park

Author:John Towner Williams

“We have the idea that after we have been thinking something, it just evaporates. But thinking doesn't disappear. It goes somehow into the brain and leaves something-a trace-which becomes thought. And thought then acts automatically.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Ideas Brain Disappear

Book:On Dialogue

Source: On Dialogue

“'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.”

Ifs Thinking Should I Can Philosophy Helping Action Young Brain Sky Atheism Strange Concern Puberty

Author:Lord Byron

“I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.”

Thinking Hard Stuff Brain Rocks Merit Etc Iron Metals Punk Charlie Dukes Maidens Hardcore Discharge Hard Rock Iron Maiden

Author:Dave Smalley

“I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."”

People Thinking Believe Whole Light Dies Stuff Process White Brain Dying Evidence Hello Emergencies Circuits White Light Empirical Evidence

Author:Stephen King

“I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.”

Thinking Way Want Stills Universe Felt Brain Environment Journey Goes On Connections Access Unconscious Allowing New Environment

Author:Amy Hardie

“Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think of that so often in my regular life, as I'm always interacting with people or with my computer or phone.”

People Thinking Long Opportunity Brain Computer Silent Phones Interacting

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“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

“I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.”

Thinking I Can Remember Mother Brain Waste Worn

Author:Florence Welch

“When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.”

Thinking Men Way Shows Bigs Acting Brain Saws Teacher Groups Theater One Man

Author:Edward Norton

“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.”

People Thinking Way Art Moments Certain Challenges Brain Generations Involved Bigger Fingers Consensus Defining Our Generation Doodling

Author:Edward Norton

“Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.”

Thinking Brain Talent Picks Ultimate Competition Host Idols Most Amazing Interviewers Fangirl Slaying

Author:Tyler Oakley

“When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That's where I get sort of lost. I think, "Oh, there are six other jokes that we could say here!" I feel more at home with drama.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.”

Thinking Stories Brain Surgeons Brain Surgeons

Author:Uma Thurman

“The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I'm super hard on myself anytime I think of an idea for a collaboration. I will rack my brain trying to think of one. I wait for the right person. It stresses me to think that I'd do a collaboration with someone and not make it the best possible opportunity.”

Thinking Trying Persons Ideas Hard Opportunity Waiting Brain Stress Collaboration Right Person Racks

Author:Lilly Singh

“I think we have gotten through those brain dead moments on both our parts. Now we just love to race one another hard and clean.”

Thinking Hard Moments Race Brain Clean Brain Dead

Author:Jeff Gordon

“I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He's got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him. There isn't a player of his mould anywhere in the world. Paul is irreplaceable.”

Thinking World Brain Player Skills England Best Players Mould Irreplaceable Scholes Paul Scholes

Author:Alex Ferguson

“I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.”

Thinking Strong Lines Brain Effects Fronts New York Color Screens Airplane Saturated

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.”

Thinking Book Reading Process Brain Information Compare Reading Books Collision

Author:Victoria Chang

“I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.”

Thinking Water Brain Stupid Healthy Window Angry Add Instant Adrenaline

Author:David Crosby

“I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.”

People Thinking Should Persons Book House Brain Crosses Photograph Lifestyle Collections Sections Website Spine

Author:Phil Elvrum

“We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we like to think. We think we're these important human beings. We're not animals or anything. But what did we come out of? What are we made out of? We're made of the same stuff as out there.”

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Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.”

Thinking Turns Loses Brain Senses Volume

Author:David Mason

“Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences?...Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think that it's all actually happening...Would you plug in?”

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Writing Happens Next Brain Worry Tired Stuck Best Way Subconscious Next Day Writer's Block

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.”

Thinking Together Brain Study Physics Quantum Upside Down Quantum Physics Back Together Together Again Unraveling Kabbalah Back Together Again

Author:Rebecca Pidgeon

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