Brain Quotes · Page 32

I'm super hard on myself anytime I think of an idea for a collaboration. I will rack my brain trying to think…

— Lilly Singh

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I…

— Maya Angelou

He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because…

— Julia Quinn

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I…

— John Daly

I literally can't get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came…

— Emily Berrington

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

— J. F. C. Fuller

Beauty school gave me brain damage.

— Hunx

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In…

— John M. Tyler

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

— Bob Edwards

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed…

— David Eagleman

I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were…

— Gregory Orr

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling…

— Antonio Damasio

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing…

— Daniel Gilbert

You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!

— Rick Riordan

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The…

— Adyashanti

My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive.

— Don Rickles

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

— Patricia Churchland

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be…

— Dalai Lama

I write with my brain. I don't need a computer.

— Jose Feliciano

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

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that…

— Maryanne Wolf

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

— Peter Watts