I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be… — Brit Marling 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
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all… — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff… — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
“That day, the great mind in neuroscience Michael A. Persinger, who is now a good friend of mine, made me realize that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is a common fact that we see light flashes in a dark environment while living up here, and this experiment is… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
All my kids will train in martial arts; it's a requirement. Do I want them to fight professionally? Hell no. If they… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails.… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate… — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
“The many aspects of self are based on structures and processes spread throughout the brain and nervous system, and embedded in the… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“I started smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol for the same reason I would sometimes tell self aggrandizing lies; I was wanting in… — Cory Duchesne Copy Share Image
Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
