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“The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.”

Given Wish Brain Easier Waste Appreciate I've Learned Wasting Time Things I've Learned

Author:Laini Taylor

“I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.”

Should Law Mother Given Pleasure Brain Good Day In-laws Recollection Mother In Law

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.”

Mind Form Given Brain Birth Achievement Intellect

Book:Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner

Source: Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner

“Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.”

People Men Given Nations Brain Century Position Achievement Intellectual Men And Women Vote Responsible Pondering Right To Vote Racks

Book:Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.”

Years Humans Book Used Given Human Beings Brain Years Ago Doctors Rage Teeth Organs Anthology Mischievous

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.”

Heart Use Given Decision Brain

Author:Fulton Oursler

“I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!”

World Giving Country Enough Given Interest Brain Late Give Me Violent Good Enough

Book:Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney

Source: Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney

“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”

People Play Given Fun Brain Roles Worry Economic Emotional Quiet Finding Yourself Precision Lasers Outburst Quiet People Brain Dead Emotional Outbursts

Author:Damian Lewis

“I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.”

Believe Given Brain Direct Cells Right Thing Make You Happy Brain Cells

Author:Ranbir Kapoor

“Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.”

Has Beens Given Race Brain Quiet Sunshine Elation Quiet Place

Book:The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters

Source: The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters

“I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.”

People Hard Given Loses Brain Watches Intellectual Gifted Sharpness

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.”

Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist

“A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in that country are developed, only if their level of culture is raised and only if an infinite importance is given to the science and to the knowledge!”

People Ifs Country Science Culture House Given Levels Brain Importance Infinite Raised Bridges

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan