Brain Quotes · Page 88

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a…

— Judy Sheindlin

“Neurons that fire together, wire together. Neurons that fail to link, fire out of sync.”

— An Article on Neuroplasticity

“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”

— Austin O'Malley

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

— Grace Helbig

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

— Jill Lepore

My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.

— Amanda Seales

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

— George Santayana

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be…

— Rene Redzepi

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows,…

— Joan Baez

Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the…

— Brian Johnson

“The brain consists of many small networks of neurons that connect to other networks, like this: Just a basic understanding of how…

— Darius Foroux

My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a…

— Robert Sapolsky

There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That's way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually…

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and…

— Jack Handey

We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit…

— Ron Currie Jr

Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate.…

— Ali Banisadr

Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to…

— H. L. Mencken

Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at…

— Doc Childre

“The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull,…

— Burkhard Bilger

A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited…

— Darren Boyd

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss…

— Alicia Coppola

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

— Jonathan Gottschall

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The modern brain is clogged with information, a huge percentage of which is non-essential to effective daily functioning.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

Success never depend on the size of our brain. It always depends on the size of our thoughts.

— Anonymous

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

— Viv Albertine

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

— Paul Daniels

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

— Buffalo Bill

“Your brain needs space to think, not more tasks demanding attention.”

— Felecia Etienne

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

— Max Eastman

Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

— Daniel Levitin

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

— Brit Marling

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

— Stephen Gostkowski

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

— Antonia Fraser

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

— Keith Henson

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore