Nervous System Quotes

140 Nervous System quotes by 101 unique authors

Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati
One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes… — Layne Redmond
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions. — Daniel D. Palmer
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an… — Marshall McLuhan
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed… — Timothy Leary
...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach… — Wilder Penfield
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. — George Crumb
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of… — Peter Singer
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities… — Peter Singer
I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it… — Mark T Bertolini
It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do… — Sathya Sai Baba
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. — Paul Cezanne
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not… — Glenway Wescott
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. — Jaron Lanier
People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a… — Georges St-Pierre
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
Pressure is calming to the nervous system. — Temple Grandin
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for… — Daniel Dennett
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment… — Jeffrey Kluger
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. — Alfred Korzybski
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you… — Timothy Leary
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a… — Ingrid Newkirk
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. — Carl Rogers
All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more… — Lysander Spooner
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed… — Frans de Waal

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