“You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.” KnowsNeedsBookEasyStuffBrainNiceBedMetaphysicalTranquilThoughts In Your Head Author:Cristina Saralegui
“Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.” WorldFactsRealityStuffRealizingBrainAppearing Author:Daniel Gilbert
“We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.” IdeasStuffBrainConsciousnessQualityNo IdeaSubjective Author:Richard Davidson
“I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.” PeopleKnowsAbleReadingAsksStuffBrainBlockPleasant Author:Michael Madsen
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.” ThinkingWritingEasyStuffBrainQualityCompanyGrowingTreeInfluenceExampleFindingsSellsMarketingCellsDepartmentExceptionTrendsPublishingEmphasisInkBrain CellsIllustrating Author:Jabari Asim
“No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.” FactsUseYoungPurposeStuffResultsBrainEducationPrinciplesToo ShortEliminationTrue Education Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.” DoeFeelingsSpiritStuffBrainFictionQualityPerception Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.” EnergyFeltStuffParentBrainSarcasmTimingUnclesGrandparentAuntDeliveryAunts And Uncles Author:Jeff Ross
“My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.” WayStuffBrainHalfWanderUnicornHalf Way Author:Dougie Poynter
“Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.” GivingStuffBrainComedyGive MeComedianSugarDealerJunkie Author:Eddie Izzard
“We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future.” HappensStuffBrainHalfInformationCloudsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialOther HalfHybrid Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.” FeelsStillsI CanStuffInterestingBrainCasesTechnologyComputerPhonesExtremesAnxiousInteractionReally InterestingManicOverdoing It Author:George Saunders
“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.” PeopleThinkingUseBigsStuffBrainPopulationProvenPonderingBig Picture Author:Mitch Lucker