Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. — Jet Li
The brain may take advice, but not the heart. — Truman Capote
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than… — Karl Kraus
Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.… — Richard Dawkins
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your… — Jack Ma
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when… — Mark Twain
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners… — Joseph Conrad
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them -… — T. Berry Brazelton
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor… — Bertolt Brecht
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort… — Jane Goodall
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can… — Robert Pattinson
Whenever I have to do anything fan-related there's always a whole bunch of people. My brain kind of shuts down when there are loads of… — Robert Pattinson
I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign… — Robert Pattinson
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well,… — Peter Lynch
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. — L. Sprague de Camp
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. — John Scalzi
And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you're done pouring it onto the page. Your Left-brain… — Jeff Bollow
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have… — Amy Tan
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow. — Georges Simenon
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?… — C.S. Lewis
Football is a game you play with your brain — Johan Cruijff
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients,… — Joe McNally
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. — Albert Einstein

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