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Quotes About Processing

Just sitting quietly, doing nothing at all, your brain churns through more information in thirty seconds than the Hubble Space Telescope has processed in thirty years. A morsel of cortex one cubic millimeter in size—about the size of a grain of sand—could hold two thousand terabytes of information, enough to store all the movies ever made, trailers included, or about 1.2 billion copies of this book.
~ Bill Bryson
Just sitting quietly, doing nothing at all, your brain churns through more information in thirty seconds than the Hubble Space Telescope has processed in thirty years.
~ Bill Bryson
These actions have arcane names like braking, retting, swingling (or scutching), and hackling or heckling, but essentially they involve pounding, stripping, soaking, and otherwise separating the pliant inner fiber, or bast, from its woodier stem. It is striking to think that when we heckle a speaker today we use a term that recalls the preparation of flax from the early Middle Ages.
~ Bill Bryson
Hold on," Moms said, processing the information. "You're saying he should have been dead based on your analysis, but he was still alive. And alive enough to attack us?" "Yes.
~ Bob Mayer
In moments of crisis, the reason people say that things move in slow motion is that the brain is struggling to process too much information at once. As a result, the brain slows it all down to digest each bit of emotion, pain, and reality.
~ Brad Meltzer
Because the brain stores emotional memories and the physical details of what happened in two separate places. This is oversimplifying
~ Tami Hoag
Sensitive individuals process experiences more thoroughly than others do.
~ Ted Zeff
And just to complicate matters, autistic people seem to get visual cues mixed up with aural cues. Normally when a person is listening, the visual cortex gets turned down. But a 2012 fMRI study found that when autistics were listening to sound cues, their visual cortices remained more active than neurotypicals'. If that's the case, then even while they're straining to process aural cues, they're being distracted and confused by visual cues.
~ Temple Grandin
I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
~ Alexandra Petri
what else is cognition but information processing? Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.
~ Frans de Waal
The most important issues are the recovery and removal of oil seeds, oil cake, and only then the removal of grain.
~ Frederick Taylor
When we are experience shame we are often thrown into crisis mode... In this mode, the neocortex is bypassed and our acess to advanced, rational, calm thinking and processing of emotion all but disappears...we find ourselves becoming aggressive, wanting to run and hide and feeling paralyzed...
~ Brene Brown
Am I holding on to Unexpressed emotions today?
~ Brene Brown
The non-doing also makes sense—there is a body of research that indicates that we don't process other emotional information accurately when we feel overwhelmed, and this can result in poor decision making.
~ Brene Brown
Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer the case.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
~ Abraham Zapruder
A couple of my favorite podcasts are 'Still Processing' from 'The New York Times,' Oprah's 'Super Soul Conversations,' RuPaul's 'What's the Tee?'
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.
~ Charlie Hunnam
I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.
~ A. J. Pritchard
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
~ Tom Hooper
A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.
~ Steven Pinker
In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.
~ Demi Lovato
constructed with the help of specific enzymes. For example, each of the systems involved in the processing of genetic information requires energy at many discrete steps.
~ Stephen C. Meyer