Brains Quote by Douglas Rushkoff

“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

— Tian Dayton

“In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there…

— Jeanette Winterson

“We become tight and constricted in our minds, which can easily lead to agitation and restlessness.”

— Gyalwa Dokhampa

“The limbic system works with many other brain systems. Neuroscientists suggest that, if the limbic system function is decreased, depression results. If limbic system…

— Dr Stefan Cembrowicz

“What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there’s this dissociation between…

— Jon Ronson

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear…

— Nancy Gibbs

“The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than…

— Robert Macfarlane

“When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“When the mind experiences something pleasant, it craves that the pleasure will remain and will intensify. Therefore, the mind is always dissatisfied and restless.…

— Yuval Noah Harari