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“Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.”

Mind Has Beens Three Asks Answers Brain India Asking West Philosopher Fascinating Lofty

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.”

Thinking Way Years Lasts Three Brain Three Years

Author:Dan Deacon

“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.”

Years Mind Ideas Different Three Growth Brain Week Childhood Century Theory Months Billions Scales Fleeting

Author:Marvin Minsky

“You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.”

Moments Feelings Order Three Brain Finals Treasure Pounds Fades Lumps Hamburgers

Author:Isaac Marion

“The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.”

World Bigs Three Brain Pounds

Author:R. Scott Bakker

“Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.”

Funny Science Three Levels Brain Amount Activity Congress Concentration Lowest Email

Author:W. Bruce Cameron

“The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.”

Children Dream Lasts Three Wish Brain Blood Months Jazz Saving Mortals Pounds Electricity Stew Hepburn Audrey Somalia Sonatas

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.”

World Way Two Reason Three Powerful Brain Teaching Minutes Training Optimism Grateful Threat Patterns Reason Why New Things Scanning

Author:Shawn Achor

“If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.”

Way Firsts Two Enough Facts Dies Three Brain First Time Tragedy Settling Expenses Three Things Cocaine Puddles Sinuses

Book:Eve's Hollywood

Source: Eve's Hollywood

“Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

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Author:Daniel Levitin

“Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.”

Kind Three Understanding Brain Taught Thirds

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli