When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Almost everything we do is automatic, yet we're not aware of that. We feel like there's a circle of light. We're like… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it… — Manny Alvarez Copy Share Image
I'd teach them to read and to dream and to look at the stars and wonder. I'd teach them the value of… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Ballet is great for spatial awareness. It does wonders for your core and your flexibility and, of course, you have to exercise… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image