Brain Quotes

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile Gebrselassie

Tell, High, Official

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
Maya Lin

Art, Help, Everything

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
Mercedes Ruehl

Learned, Choice, Condition

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
Pamela Anderson

Friends, Reading, Charm

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
John Dobbin

Good, Reality, Eyes

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell

Hope, Die, Afraid

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
Stanislav Grof

Nature, Matter, Current

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Paul Simon

Superior, Inferior, Brutal

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
Fiona Apple

Life, Experience, Crazy

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple

Time, Through, Light

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
Jeffrey Kluger

Learning, Mind, Beginning

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
Jeffrey Kluger

The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
Jeffrey Kluger

Hard, Around, Between

Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
Jeffrey Kluger

Job, Football, May

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.
Jane Goodall

True, Human, Between

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
Jane Goodall

Human, May, Win

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
Alice Cooper

Fun, Making, Maniac

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson

Age, Power, Strength

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
Sloane Crosley

Everything, Personal, Seems

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
Phaedrus

Show, Vain, Splendid

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.
Jaron Lanier

Technology, Thinking, Trying

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Mickey Mantle

Good, Someone, Same

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Jeff Bezos

Human, Incredible, Machine

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
Jessica Biel

Home, Child, Dead

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
Joan Collins

Remember, Lose, Phone

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.
Todd McFarlane

Tired, Done, Trying

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten

Straight, Pen, Hooked

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
Arthur Symons

Thought, Leave, Perfume

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.
Beth Ditto

Getting, Word, Exercise

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall

Power, Design, Said

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