Quotes About Brain

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

It's nice to be able to challenge myself by playing real people. But at the same time it utilizes a different part of the brain to just invent new things.

depression forges a connection in the brain between sad mood and negative thoughts, so that even normal sadness can reawaken major negative thoughts.

Cuando experimentamos el miedo, estamos utilizando una herencia animal común, no exclusiva de los primates ni, tan siquiera, de los vertebrados. El miedo se remonta directamente al cerebro reptiliano.

In any situation where our brains perceive extreme threat, the neocortex (the most recently evolved layer of the brain, which performs logical calculation) may be "hijacked" by the deeper, more primitive reptilian layer.

your neocortex is the part of your brain that tracks time.

Extreme overeating is basically a warp spasm, a violent tantrum thrown by the deprived or captive Wild Child in our brains. When it hits, rational thinking goes out the window.

research on meditation does indicate that staying in a compassionate mode toward one's self removes brain activity from zones that trigger flight, fight, and frenzied eating.

And there is the sound, the one that grates deepest against the nerves, that is hellish and hated, that knifes into the brain and makes a man wince through and through. A scream, metallic, thin, and high, a slender file blade cutting through the nerves. Above all else there is this cry of the fighter racing in close, sounding a scream that can be none other. Out of the whole

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Each of our major Ways to Think results from turning certain resources on while turning certain others off—and thus changing some ways that our brains behave.

The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations—that's the man! But so aloof is he from general suspicion, so immune from criticism, so admirable in his management and self-effacement, that for those very words that you have uttered he could hale you to a court and emerge with your year's pension as a solatium for his wounded character.

It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

Mi cerebro es como un motor en marcha, que se destroza porque no esta embragado a la máquina para la que fue construido.

The first time, I couldn't have felt more panicked if I'd sneezed and found pieces of my brain in the handkerchief.

There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi concsiousness and numb idiocy.