“in her nervous system and she can’t get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field” — John Green Copy Share Image
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is true that technical progress in modern times has linked men together like a complex nervous system. The means of travel… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ… — William James Copy Share Image
Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Fear..." I uncrossed her arms and linked my fingers with hers. "Is what makes us feel alive. Fear causes our blood vessels… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
“The Perfectionist pushed Tom onto her bed. She took off his shirt. She took off his shoes and his socks. She took… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) mediates the body’s response to arousing circumstances, for example, producing the famed “fight or flight” stress response.… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“In fact, public speaking anxiety may be primal and quintessentially human, not limited to those of us born with a high-reactive nervous… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We… — Dielle Ciesco Copy Share Image
“People believe they lack will power, but will power is not something you either have or don’t, like blue eyes. Instead, it’s… — Richard O'Connor Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
“The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half'… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Our immune system does not exist in isolation from daily experience. For example, the immune defences that normally function in healthy young… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly. In the psychopathic… — William James Copy Share Image
“A Report in 1996 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found a link between harmful electromagnetic fields and cancer. The Air Force… — Bryant A. Meyers Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“The areas of the cortex responsible for attention and self-regulation develop in response to the emotional interaction with the person whom we… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Young Castle called me "Scoop." "Good Morning, Scoop. What's new in the word game?" "I might ask the same of you," I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and… — Jonathan Lipnicki Copy Share Image
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Viagra does have a physiological effect, but it doesn't make women feel aroused. Nowadays, researchers are looking at drugs that affect the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast.… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body, and effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Not only do hormones tell all the systems of your body what to do—kidneys, liver, metabolism, digestion, nervous system, reproductive organs—they also… — Alisa Vitti Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
