Brain Quotes

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Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. — Charles Duhigg
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be… — Charles Duhigg
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; itâ€™s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our… — Steven Pressfield
Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready. — Steven Pressfield
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous… — Alan Watts
Soccer isn't brain surgery, have fun. — Michelle Akers
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad. — Michel Gondry
If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. — Manfred von Richthofen
. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain… — Ernst Udet
I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the… — Jack Handey
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that… — Alison Gopnik
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one… — Stefan Zweig
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you… — Gail Carson Levine
Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could… — Jack Kerouac
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions,… — David Brooks
Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child. — Steven Erikson
Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it… — Robert Irvine
If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic,… — Kate White

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