“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.” MenFactsCausesBrainKnownFiveFeetTelevisionTvsProofMedicalDamageNarcotics Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.” ReadingBrainWatchesCreativityTelevisionInvolvedCreator Author:Margaret Atwood
“Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.” MindTodayReadingChallengesBrainLeaderYouthTelevisionTomorrowExerciseActiveScreensPassiveMesmerizedTelevision WatchingToday's Youth Author:Richard M. Nixon
“This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.” BrainTelevisionSurgeryBrain Surgery Author:David Letterman
“We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.” NeedsMindIdeasMotivationalRunningProcessBrainCarFrontsTelevisionTaughtBatteriesDiversionIdiocyThought Process Author:Bill Watterson
“I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?” SaidBrainHistoryLearningTelevisionKeysPaperBroadsPessimismStomachDeclineOrgansPapersHeadlinesVolatility Author:Peter Lynch
“We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.” WellsDoeTwoHelpingHoursBrainTelevisionDoctorsPaidBusyBehaveFortyEntertainingPillsToo BusyPrescriptions Author:Conor Oberst
“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsShouldBelieveStillsBookSometimesStoriesCoursesGamesBrainNovelSawsTelevisionSeriesVery GoodTheatreVideoMediumsComplexityGreat WorkGood BookRichnessGood MovieI Still BelieveMovie Theatre Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.” PeopleWayMadeBookFactsKidsLyingInterestBrainMoralOpinionInformationTelevisionConstantComplexesDumbStreamsPlotSophisticatedInsecureDilemmaVested InterestsMoral DilemmaInterest In Others Author:A. A. Gill
“For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.” PeopleBrainMillionsTelevisionHabitTasteDegrading Author:Louis Kronenberger
“The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.” HumansRealHardMightWould BeAbleRomanceSexBrainMinutesTelevisionComputerConnectionsPreparingTreadmillsHuman Connection Author:Marianne Williamson
“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.” KnowsTryingYearsRealGuyHoursBrainKnow HowDoubtWeekTalentTelevisionGoes OnCreatingScientistCancerFiftyTobaccoReal Talent Author:Robert Kenner
“Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.” IfsWorldWellsLongPurposeLevelsBrainTelevisionMassGainsMachinesDelightInsightMediumsIronyDemonIsolationFascinatedTubesInsidiousBanalityAssorted Book:The Petting Zoo: A Novel Source: The Petting Zoo: A Novel
“I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.” WantTurnsBrainTelevisionInternetConvincedPlaces You Go Author:Steve Jobs
“It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.” MenHumansEnjoyHuman BeingsBrainTelevisionTaxesCapacityBombsAtomic BombSalmon Author:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
“(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!” ThinkingMindChildrenImaginationBrainFantasyTelevisionBlindSensesDullCheeseFreezeClutterRust Author:Roald Dahl
“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.” BrainAudienceTelevisionSticksHolesViewers Author:James Purdy
“In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.” PeopleBrainMillionsAwarenessTelevisionDrugLows Author:Terence McKenna
“Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.” MindFoundLevelsBrainWatchesStudyInformationTelevisionActivityScientistWavePatternsSteadySlipsParticipationViewersReceptiveAlphas Author:Jerry Mander
“It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.” HumansAbleBrainSituationTelevisionFunctionArtificialTributeHuman Brain Author:Dick Cavett