“Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.” ThinkingWorldLightTogetherSoundBrainGrewTasteElementsComplicatedSmellDimensionsFabulousWovenComplicated Things Author:Alan Watts
“What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.” ThinkingMatterBrainPiecesLeavingHotelChocolateCustomsPillow Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.” ThinkingMenHumansWellsMayReasonSeemsBrainAchieveDevelopmentOceanCapableIntellectualMachinesInnovationAvailableFavorsReason WhyNo ReasonArtificial IntelligenceArtificialSupremacyHuman Brain Book:God and the New Physics Source: God and the New Physics
“We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.” ThinkingFactsBrainPlansLessonsFlowLiteracyCurriculumWiring Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?” ThinkingHumansMayMeanDoeEvilUnderstandingTermBrainLimitsConceptsComplexityGood And EvilNeuroscienceHuman Brain Author:Francis Collins
“Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.” ThinkingBrainWorryCan Not Author:Orison Swett Marden
“Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.” ThinkingWayMindMatterBrainStepsEvery StepRegister Author:Deepak Chopra
“Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.” ThinkingWorldMayUseGovernmentChallengesViewsBrainInformationSeriousHugeInvolvedIndependentFinancialPopulationProfitCorporationsFederal GovernmentConfusingCautionDiscomfortBrainwashedIndependent ThoughtThink For YourselfInformation Is Power Author:Timothy Leary
“I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.” ThinkingHeartRealHardProblemLightRememberGuyMemoriesBrainDetailsNot SureFillingBright LightsFilling In Author:Phil Klay
“Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.” ThinkingLittlesMightTodayDiesBrainWake UpTerroristTerrorist Attacks Author:Nick Blaemire
“I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.” ThinkingMenFirstsMadeSexEnjoyBrainCoupleFirst TimeBlowDrawingBrokeIdiotBarriersAvenuesGalleryIntercourseX MenHaving SexMadisonMadison Avenue Author:Betty Dodson
“I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.” ThinkingFirstsEndsHappensAbleRememberUsedBrainWorryNew YorkSolitudeWindowPhonesCellsLengthShiftingCell PhoneTaxi Author:Dani Shapiro
“I think of this a lot in the terms of books. Of course there's a big to-do culturally about e-books versus print books, sales models. The paradigm has changed but my perspective on it is that there's not going to be another paradigm to alight on because everything will continue to evolve so quickly that our brains won't be able to keep up with it.” ThinkingBookBigsAbleCoursesTermBrainChangedPerspectiveModelsEvolvePrintVersusParadigmPrint Books Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.” ThinkingTryingBrainToo MuchMysteriousImpatient Author:Lauren Groff
“When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.” ThinkingWayNeedsPersonsYoungLeftLanguageSidesImaginationBrainSilenceUniversityIntuitionRationalSymbols Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.” ThinkingOrderBrainPopulation Author:Vladimir Putin
“People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsBrainGrewSixGrew UpTwentiesSensibility Author:Meghan Daum
“Everything is super personal. Basically all of the songs are 'this is my life and what I feel about it.' That's how my brain works and thinks about things. It's really strange because I never really think about what I want to write about - it sort of just comes out. I literally say whatever is in my brain.” ThinkingWantFeelsWritingSongBrainStrange Author:Elena Tonra
“For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.” ThinkingReasonHappensBrainAdvantagePursue Author:Kelly Blatz
“The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very young millennials - they are bored by so much so fast and have such fast big brains, that they won't digest lazy uninteresting work in the way my generation might have. This is a great opportunity for those on the fringe to be less on the fringe perhaps.” PeopleThinkingWayBigsMightYoungOpportunityGivenRoomsBrainTalkingGenerationsRadicalBoredLazyMainstreamFringeMy GenerationGreat OpportunityMillennials Author:Porochista Khakpour
“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
“I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.” ThinkingTogetherBrainPicksTime Together Author:Ellie Goulding
“Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensAbilityBrainStudyHavensToolsReleaseNeurotransmitters Author:Carl Hart
“I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.” ThinkingKnowsSelfRaceBrainInformationExampleColorDegreesRacismSkinsIncreaseStructureBonesRacistAssociatesSkin Color Author:Tao Lin
“I never think about anything in my brain. I think in very small repetitive circles inside my own brain. That's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I get any sort of conclusion or understanding about anything.” ThinkingWayUnderstandingMy OwnBrainCirclesConclusionRepetitive Author:Melissa Febos
“I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.” ThinkingWayWantSometimesBrain Author:ASAP Rocky
“Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to even have the privilege of this experience!" Steering my brain onto this track of thought begins the process of being grateful for the lesson and returns my mind to a more peaceful place.” ThinkingMindSometimesWinningProcessBrainHellFourReturnLessonsRight NowGratefulPrivilegeTrackPeacefulBe GratefulLimbsSteeringPeaceful Places Author:Graham Shiels
“I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.” ThinkingWellsKindDoneBrainKindnessSeeingSeaOceanFlowInspiredBe KindMassageCalmingTouch MeEbb And Flow Author:Roma Downey
“As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.” PeopleThinkingActorsBrainWeekDevilGrassRoutineIdleVaryPlaygroundsTime OffGreener Author:Eric Lange
“I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up. I believe we are creating in every moment - making up our reality, so to speak - so when anything gets chaotic or I feel spun out, I remind myself that everything is an interpretation. I can look at it differently and make it work for me in a more positive light.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveLooksI CanMomentsRealityLightRememberSpeakI BelieveBrainMorningToo MuchCreatingDown AndInterpretationPositivelyChaoticMaking UpSpunThinking Too MuchSpinner Author:Dash Mihok
“I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.” ThinkingShouldMeanFilmBrainApproachUnwanted Author:Johnny Depp