Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The main reason is that despite being the most sophisticated piece of bio-wetware in the known universe, capable of running the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My brain knows how to learn musical theater dancing, but learning hip-hop? It was so hard for my body to understand how… — Helene Yorke Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Getting future generations to be as excited about visiting the inner hollows of the brain as they are the outer reaches of… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil…O God, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would… — Anonymous 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
As a Muslim, I like to watch Fox News for the same reason I like to play 'Call of Duty.' Sometimes, I… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I have treatment-resistant depression and I need to take medication to rebalance my brain chemistry - just like someone with asthma needs… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like… — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people,… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
I've been misunderstood when it comes to women. I've got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and… — Austin Dacey Copy Share Image
“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My… — Robby Takac Copy Share Image
I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image