When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I was convinced I had a giant brain tumour. I thought, 'I don't believe this. It's like a bad episode of Brookside.'… — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When it comes to the reason why we have nightmares, we're still debating that. It's a new area of research, nightmares. And… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I… — Dichen Lachman Copy Share Image
I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you… — Kenny Omega Copy Share Image
Football doesn't depend just on your brain. It's not like on a computer. It depends on your body, too, and sometimes you… — Fernandinho Copy Share Image
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don't know the last time you murdered somebody or… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. The… — Ron Gutman Copy Share Image
There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he… — Ralph W. Moss 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
It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
I'm sure scientists would point to specific brain chemicals, but I think love is actually a kind of magic. It's what allows… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city.… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
