Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport,… — John Madden Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition.… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've… — Joe Namath Copy Share Image
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what… — Jerry Lee Lewis Copy Share Image
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to… — Rohit Sharma Copy Share Image
A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized,… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image