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“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.”

Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

Writing Trying I Can Different Matter Character Wonderful Offers Female Stronger Hats Gray Female Characters Gray Matter

Author:Tate Taylor

“What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.”

Thinking Matter Reality Lasts Emotion Forever Proud Illusion Mirrors Analysis Parks Gray Stomach Signals Amusement Transmit Glands Amusement Parks Gray Matter

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.”

Matter Differences Brain Study Amount Gray Twins Identical Fraternal Gray Matter

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.”

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Author:Jeff Fisher

“Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.”

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Author:Errol Morris

“The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.”

Mind Humans Real Matter Building Ears Decades Brands Barriers Human Mind Gray Penetrate Gray Matter Building A Brand

Author:Al Ries

“My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.”

“The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.”

Ifs Mind Stills Matter Shows Brain Research Increase Stress Calm Nervous Gray Immune Reduction Nervous System Immune System Functionality Gray Matter

Author:Russell Simmons

“The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".”

Littles War Matter Rooms Victory Compromise Gray Success Or Failure Victory And Success Gray Matter

Author:Richard Marcinko

“When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.”

Matter Memories Brain Died Reactions Gray Chemicals Flood Chemical Reactions Gray Matter

Author:Dan Brown

“Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?”

Kind Doe Matter Born Skills Conscience Gray Brotherhood Pardon Vishous Compunction Gray Matter Lover Unbound

Book:Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.”

“Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.”

“It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.”

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Author:John P. Jumper

“The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.”

People Ideas Real Matter Next Grows Imagination Creativity Century Determined Gray Estates Ignite Net Worth Gray Matter

Book:Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life

Source: Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life