Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in… — John Kao Copy Share Image
My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If your calling is media, if your calling is media, fine, if your calling is sports, whatever it is, but you've gotta… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not… — Marcus Garvey 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
“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
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
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 wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five… — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don't overeat. I don't develop a big paunch. I do a… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Dr. Small points out that this atmosphere of manic disruption makes my adrenal gland pump up production of cortisol and adrenaline. In… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of… — Nicolas Steno Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear.… — Robert D. Maurer Copy Share Image
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Eve: "Was that like a cookie?" Roarke: "Hmmm?" Eve: "You know, have a cookie. You'll feel better. Were you making me feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image