We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact,… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Discipline is not just about work, but about diet and about exercise and on a deeper level, about concentrating and making sure… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart,… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions… — Ray V. Pierce Copy Share Image
My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son]… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
“Thought only destroys because it broadens. A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but… — Jessicka Copy Share Image
Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their… — Francis Wayland Parker Copy Share Image
Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I see myself in perfect health. I see myself in absolute prosperity. I see myself invigorated with life, appreciating, again, this physical… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Mr. L. did not get better all at once. He had first to experience cycles of separations, dreams, depressions, and insights—the repetition,… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and… — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image