Quotes About Cerebral

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

We're more cerebral than physical. Your cerebrum can't have an orgasm.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain.

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

Good lawyering is usually cerebral and impersonally. You can convince a judge with a mastery of facts, detail, and precedent - not a story from the gut about how you feel a certain way.

I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama.

Biden is actually a wonk at heart. Despite his gaffes, he's very cerebral.

If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing - why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes?

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.

Careful is cerebral; fearful is emotional. Careful is fueled by information; fearful is fueled by imagination. Careful calculates risk; fearful avoids risk. Careful wants to achieve success; fearful wants to avoid failure. Careful is concerned about progress; fearful is concerned about protection.

If you met him you'd think the inspector was kind of slow. It was his way of thinking before he spoke so you knew that when the words came out they were just the ones he'd intended.

Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.

For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

I like the cerebral process.

I don't know anything about tech, but I do know something about slightly socially crippled and overly cerebral guys.

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

He's smarter than me. I get things done better. He's more cerebral, I'm more physical.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Probably (for we are not yet certain) it interferes with the enzyme system that regulates cerebral functioning. By doing so it lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life on the surface of our planet. This lowering of what may be called the biological efficiency of the brain seems to permit the entry into consciousness of certain classes of mental events, which are normally excluded, because they possess no survival value.

He sounds very unworldly," replied Ulf. "From what I heard the other night, he doesn't really know what's going on. He's a philosopher, you see.

She's one of those people who live way too much in their heads and are too invested in their careful plans.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.