Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world.… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The troll inside my head is much more vicious than the trolls I get online. When I was depressed and my brain… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you've been holding… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Everything we are, everything we aspire to be, every problem we want to solve, every opportunity we want to pursue - it… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up.… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Kids' brains are developing. Their heads are a larger part of their body, and their necks are not as strong as adults'… — Ann McKee Copy Share Image
I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the… — Kellin Quinn Copy Share Image
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space:… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I only get punched in the face for money. I don't wear big gloves. I don't go sparring. I'm saving my brain… — Matt Mitrione Copy Share Image
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically.… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image