“Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered? And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically conclusions in various ways — which, by and large, are useful — but which often malfunction? One approach is rationality… And the other is to evaluate the psychological factors that cause subconscious conclusions — many of which are wrong.” WayFirstsKindTwoUseCausesInterestLevelsBrainInfluenceInvolvedApproachTrackVariousPsychologicalFactorsConclusionAnalysisSubconsciousRationalityEvaluateMalfunction Author:Charlie Munger
“If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoBrainGrewGrew UpCapitalismWingsUnionsKillingTwo ThingsSovietDictatorshipSoviet UnionMarxismLiberatingRight WingBrazilCzechoslovakiaControlling Everything Author:Jose Padilha
“You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.” InspirationalTwoUseHandsBrainTwo ThingsMechanismMachinery Author:Rajneesh
“To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.” WantLooksTwoRealityEyeViewsBrainAcceptingIllusionServantConspiracyComfortingStarksCredibleFulcrumStark Reality Book:Stumbling on Happiness Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.” TwoBrainDoctorsTonguePractise Author:William Osler
“Live as though you don't exist; like you are two eyeballs floating in space with nothing behind them. No brain attached. Not even hair - Nothing.There is a place inside your own heart, inside your own being that knows the kind of seemingly foolish things I speak and it is totally thrilled to be reminded of this infinite expanse and infinite joy that it is. Find this place.” KnowsHeartKindTwoJoySpeakSpaceBehindsBrainLike YouHairInfiniteFoolishFloatingExpanseEyeballsFloating In Space Author:Mooji
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.” WellsHeartMeanTwoSoulPlayOrderAsksGrowsAnswersPayBrainStyleDegreesMusicianJazzNotesDuesRelateAsk MeHeart And SoulLife Style Author:Woody Shaw
“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.” PeopleKnowsYearsPersonsHas BeensTwoDiesCausesResultsBrainTalkingFiveMinutesDiseaseScientistAveragePostsMusclesFive YearsAlsDiagnosisTerminalTerminal Disease Author:Steve Gleason
“If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.” IfsWorldHeartTwoBrainConsciousnessMinutesConsciousMassiveZeroFragile Author:Robin Gibb
“After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.” WayFirstsTwoFeelingsAbleFilmMotivationBrainThirdsInstinctCommitConclusionCrapBrainwashed Book:Clint Eastwood: interviews Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews
“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