Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“The Perfectionist pushed Tom onto her bed. She took off his shirt. She took off his shoes and his socks. She took… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
“The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) mediates the body’s response to arousing circumstances, for example, producing the famed “fight or flight” stress response.… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“In fact, public speaking anxiety may be primal and quintessentially human, not limited to those of us born with a high-reactive nervous… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Practicing mindful, focused breathing, even for ten minutes a day, reduces stress and promotes relaxation. Slow, deep, rhythmic breathing causes a reflex… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
“Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly. In the psychopathic… — William James Copy Share Image
“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half'… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“That hundreds of millions of people believe that a man named Noah built an ark and put all of the world's species… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“A Report in 1996 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found a link between harmful electromagnetic fields and cancer. The Air Force… — Bryant A. Meyers Copy Share Image
“Young Castle called me "Scoop." "Good Morning, Scoop. What's new in the word game?" "I might ask the same of you," I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Viagra does have a physiological effect, but it doesn't make women feel aroused. Nowadays, researchers are looking at drugs that affect the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ… — William James Copy Share Image
“Fear..." I uncrossed her arms and linked my fingers with hers. "Is what makes us feel alive. Fear causes our blood vessels… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and… — Jonathan Lipnicki Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
“The role of the SNS is to create the fight-or-flight response, an effect that is balanced by the influences of the parasympathetic… — Catherine M. Pittman Copy Share Image
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
