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“You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.”

Want Inspirational Turns Brain Tvs Internet Computer Free Speech

Author:Steve Jobs

“I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.”

Needs Heart Turns Brain My Heart Turn-on

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.”

Matter Hands Action Turns Chance Brain Mankind Conjuring

Book:The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more

Source: The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more

“It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.”

Play Moving Turns Process Brain Roles Produce Highest Muscles Mechanism Protein Thought Process Pivotal

Author:John Ratey

“Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn”

Heart School Turns Brain Broken Lessons Pages Bent

Author:Andy Partridge

“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel

“You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.”

People Knows Way Feels Years Mean Seems Lying Turns Brain Spots Bugs

Author:Jack White

“These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high, Because all sounds do highly move aloft; And that they may not pierce too violently, They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft. For should the voice directly strike the brain, It would astonish and confuse it much; Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain. That it the organ may more gently touch.”

Should May Soul Moving Turns Sound Voice Brain Hearing Strikes Organs Delay Folds Pierce Plaits

Author:Sir John Davies

“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.”

Looks Has Beens Different Whole Reality Happens Past Turns Lost Levels Results Brain Wonder Pieces Impossible Happened Lows Damage Infidelity Our Past Potatoes Your Past Chunks Low Level

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.”

Firsts Turns Brain Judgment Complicated Surrender Agents Clients Turn Off Planners Coma

Book:Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

Source: Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

“Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.”

Real Soul Ends Matter Inspiration Spirit Turns Secret Brain Blood Journey Adventure Cold Lovers Sick Weight Meetings Clouds Nostalgia Gray Adventurer Dismay Lovers Meeting

Book:Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.”

Knows Turns Forget Brain Boys Shots Episodes

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.”

Turns Brain Turn-on

Author:Liz Vassey

“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.”

Hands Turns Brain Fiction Quiet Mercy Turn Off Submissive

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.”

Turns Brain Morning Hair Six Wake Up Studios Interviews Makeup Waking Promoting Turn-on Hair And Makeup

Author:Taylor Swift

“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.”

Way Doe Self Feelings Turns Process My Own Attention Brain Consciousness Cases Example Particular Supposed To Be Self Conscious Foreheads Self Consciousness

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein