To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival.… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man… — Homer Copy Share Image
Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert on how to configure the sport, but I can observe and say that accidents seem to be a… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain,… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
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The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“Your brain is programmed to seek out the negative—dwindling resources, destructive weather, whatever’s out to hurt you. So when you switch on… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
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When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings” is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can’t understand and your brain has to… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
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