Best 3808 quotes in «brain quotes» category

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.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.

Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

All Children Have Brain Damage!

All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'...and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.'

All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my nervous system. The shards from a googleplex of infobits seem to be stuck in the part of my brain just above the pineal gland. Yes, I've just been reading Kenji Siratori again. This is my idea of a good time.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.