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Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.

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.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.

Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!

Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala and insular cortex, brain regions that are all about fear, anxiety, aggression, and disgust.

Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Brain cancer has a latency in the population of 40 years.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.