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
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
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart,… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
Discipline is not just about work, but about diet and about exercise and on a deeper level, about concentrating and making sure… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact,… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son]… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions… — Ray V. Pierce Copy Share Image
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't… — Seth Shostak 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
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
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
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
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 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
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Kid?” – Kyrian “I’m not worthy.” – Nick “What?” – Kyrian “Dude, that’s a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again...… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just… — V.S. Ramachandran 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
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
Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
Humans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
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