I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
You can never stop your brain from thinking about what could happen tomorrow or next week or the next hour. It is… — David Wagner Copy Share Image
You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world,… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in… — Tana French Copy Share Image
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will -… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
