Quotes About Brain

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through." The

Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does.

Not every negative situation can be solved with a threat of violence. Trust you brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.

I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age.

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

the little governor in most mature adults' brains that told them the difference between polite commentary and insult was completely missing from Fletcher.

Debe ser molesto estar hecho de carne —comentó él en tono meditativo—, pues tienes que dormir, comer y beber. Claro que, por otra parte, tienes cerebro, y eso compensa todos los otros inconvenientes

No one, no matter how intelligent and skillful at critical thinking, is protected against the subliminal suggestions that imprint themselves on our unconscious brain if we are watching hours and hours of television.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

try to inspire them to consider the power and implications of such potential. I tell them that no computer network on earth can come close to the capacity of the average human brain. This resource that each one of us has is a tremendous gift from God—the most complex organ system in the entire universe.

Then let's use this incredible tool God has given us to assess the risks that we face every day. We have the means to analyze risks and decide which are worth taking and which should be avoided. Do you have a brain? Then use it. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Do you have a brain?" And if the answer was yes, then she said, "Then you could have thought your way out of it.

How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, just as a cathartic exercise? What important piece of her brain was missing that deprived her of such, well, deeply necessary acts of physical editing ?

the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…

That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out.

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...

The energy used in thinking seems to have a chemical origin; for instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a clever man into an idiot.

Narcissism is the result of longstanding behavioral patterns that reflect fixed brain functioning. It requires a lot of motivation to change these patterns.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.