“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.” PersonsHandsIndividualEnergyEnjoyCommonBrainCircumstancesOrdinaryDifficultyAppropriateSpheresScopeModeratesPossessing Book:A System of Phrenology Source: A System of Phrenology
“Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.” DifferentUniverseBrainCircumstancesUniqueExposed Author:Gerald Edelman
“I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.” ThinkingWayWritingBrainFieldsCircumstancesRealistic Author:Richard Matheson
“Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?” WayPersonsHappensBornBrainSupportEnvironmentHappenedCircumstancesCreaturesUniqueSensitiveBlankOur EnvironmentSlateHeredityBlank Slates Author:Gloria Steinem
“Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.” PeopleCertainHoursBrainPracticeTalentAmountCircumstancesMarriedSuperstarWiring Author:Kevin Maney
“I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.” FilmBrainStyleParticularCircumstancesMethodTechniqueBelly Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” MenPastGivenBrainGenerationsCircumstancesPleaseTraditionChosenNightmareMaking History Author:Karl Marx
“Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.” ThinkingWayWantCharacterSeemsTogetherCertainInterestBrainHabitCircumstancesBoundsTendenciesRelatedOrganizedDependentTraitsStableBundlesGlitches Author:Malcolm Gladwell