“In other words, the Himba participants categorized facial movements as behaviors rather than inferring mental states or feelings.” — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“Your physical well being and thus your mental state, is God-given responsibility to you. Tending to them and get a clear sense… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state… — William James Copy Share Image
fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“By taking just a few extra seconds to stay with a positive experience—even the comfort in a single breath—you’ll help turn a… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them. — Robin Farina Copy Share Image
In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Policies that aim to promote the livelihood security of the people - promoting employment, improving the nutritional status of children and women,… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — L. W. Sumner Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have long regarded intentionality as a puzzling phenomenon, for it is hard to see how it can arise in a purely… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more… — Roy Davis Copy Share Image
Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. Best way… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury Copy Share Image
Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour. — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
For me, if you are not like, taking care of my heart, my emotions, you know, just my mental state and making… — Larsa Pippen Copy Share Image
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“when we say of any one that he is generous. The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“THE KAA I imagined his memory was playing tricks on him, the way that dreams are usually a product of the mental… — Iqra Iqbal Copy Share Image
More than ever, I had to analyze my mental state over the past couple of years because of all the things that… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
Even the most ardent Obama supporter can't, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
So much of boxing is to do with your mental state. Evander Holyfield talks about spirit. I definitely have that spirit and… — Daniel Dubois Copy Share Image
“Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
