Brain Quotes · Page 103

Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

— Shelby Harris

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

— Marvin Minsky

“Keep an open mind, but as they say, not so open your brain falls out.”

— Melissa Tiers

One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?

— John Hickenlooper

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part…

— Daphne du Maurier

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

— Charles Scott Sherrington

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the…

— John Buchan

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function…

— Bernard Beckett

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

— Brian Tracy

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that…

— Jeff Ross

“...many of our ideas, feelings and actions come from the right brain, while the left brain makes up reasons for those ideas,…

— Philippa Perry

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived…

— Moby

“One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it…

— Dean Burnett

I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of…

— Robert J. White

“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron…

— Ray Kurzweil

Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all…

— Paul Tough

It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…

— Charles Darwin

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate…

— Richard Dawkins

I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were…

— Gregory Orr

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body,…

— Alexander Pope

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things…

— Bette Midler

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to…

— Terrence Howard

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the…

— Jane McGonigal

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

— Stanley Kunitz

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

— Walter de La Mare

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

— Keith Henson

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

— Stephen Gostkowski

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

— Brit Marling

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

— Antonia Fraser

Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

— Daniel Levitin

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

— Max Eastman

“Your brain needs space to think, not more tasks demanding attention.”

— Felecia Etienne

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

— Buffalo Bill

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

— Paul Daniels

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

— Viv Albertine