For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All my kids will train in martial arts; it's a requirement. Do I want them to fight professionally? Hell no. If they… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
“As parents move from defensive processes to increased empathy for their children, the children's attachment security increases. Thus, on one side we… — Daniel J. Siegel, M.D Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved,… — zelda popkin Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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