Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into… — Rudolph Ballentine Copy Share Image
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but… — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes:… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors.… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
