“Your brain is run by information generated by nations, religions, ethnic groups, and other groups whose goals are perhaps not the same… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. "You will… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“Remarkably, the size of neurons’ dendritic trees in the hippocampus expands and contracts like an accordion throughout a female rat’s ovulatory cycle,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal,… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, 'He's not as good a brain surgeon as his… — Finty Williams Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's… — George Woolf Copy Share Image
You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island… — John Collins Copy Share Image
So when one thought goes into your mind, it's not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the… — Daniel Mazia Copy Share Image
Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
