Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment.… — Tim Harford
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. — Jonathan Haidt
To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not… — Sharon Olds
Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body — Vsevolod Pudovkin
Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work… — Elliott Erwitt
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind… — Gustav Holst
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,… — John Donne
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in… — H.G. Wells
I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I… — Brian Setzer
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams… — Doris Lessing
The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to… — Joyce Carol Oates
When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery kicks sand in… — Jack White
Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing… — Friedrich Engels
When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position. — Twyla Tharp
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons… — Rosika Schwimmer
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this:… — Jean Baudrillard
The Internet of things will augment your brain. — Eric Schmidt
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain.… — Ellen Meloy
The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don't know the last time you murdered somebody or blew anyone's brains… — Michael Douglas
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a… — Dallin H. Oaks
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry… — Hunter S. Thompson
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a… — Charles Stross
My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a… — Edna O'Brien
Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive. — Maya Angelou
Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically… — Marc Bolan

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