“While this neurobiology is mighty impressive, the brain is not where a behavior 'begins'. It's merely the final common pathway by which… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs… — Nicolas Steno Copy Share Image
The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of… — Ari Hest Copy Share Image
“What happens to the brain during exercise? At the start of physical activity, the brain recognizes this period as a moment of… — Osnat Duman Copy Share Image
DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. .… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Your vision, for instance. Over a third of your brain is dedicated to processing the details streaming in from your eyes, and… — Christopher Farnsworth Copy Share Image
“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . . — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meg! I love you! I want to marry you!" "That's weird," she said without stopping. "Only six weeks ago, you were telling… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“So, what your brain actually needs for permanent weight loss is for you to listen to your body –eat only when you’re… — Erika Flint Copy Share Image
I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like… — Tamala Jones Copy Share Image
Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
“Ceno's brain, soft and pink with blood - and veined with endless whorls and branches of sapphire threaded through every synapse and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed… — Ken Venturi Copy Share Image
