Brain Quotes

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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not… — Helen Fisher
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There… — Dalai Lama
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher. — Stefan Zweig
Our brain is the factory of the emotions — Miguel Angel Ruiz
You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car… — Emerson Fittipaldi
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. — Herman Melville
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are… — Philip Zimbardo
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. — Douglas Coupland
I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool. — Derek Raymond
Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating. — Jessica Mitford
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the… — Fritz Zwicky
Hereâ€™s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used… — Merrill Markoe
Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say,… — Isabella Blow
When I cook, my brain stops completely. — Dino De Laurentiis
The brain is closer to the skull, — Randy Carlyle
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflexâ€”â€œis as limiting as saying that my personality… — Scott Stossel
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudesâ€¦ Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of… — Orison S. Marden

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