Quotes About Brain

I've glued the letter directly into my diary, as it's so staggeringly imbecilic that any attempt to summarize its contents would make my brain leak out through my ears.

A ten-year, double-blind study from the Mayo Clinic concluded that even in late stages of dementia, the last to go is the lobe of the brain in charge of cafeteria layout.

Brains are notoriously selfish organs. They give themselves priority access to everything they require—from blood-flow to warmth, nutrients and oxygen. During times of bodily stress, our brains will shut down one organ after another, even to the point of damaging them—before depriving themselves. Brains are also greedy. They make up just 2 per cent of our body weight, yet take 20 per cent of the energy we use.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.

I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

I think it's just more things have happened in my life that made my brain go a little nutty and over-analytical that I'm not as levelheaded as people might think I am.

Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

The experiences in the first years of life are disproportionately powerful in shaping how your brain organizes.

Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think. This is also how our brain develops—sequentially, from the bottom up. The developing infant acts and feels, and these actions and feelings help organize how they will begin to think.

For me, there are actually two lenses through which to view 'what happened to you.' There is the science-based explanation of the effect early trauma has on the brain. And then there are the myriad daily actions each of us take throughout our lives that are the result of, and that reflect back on, such trauma. These are the actions that, on the surface, look like bad decisions, bad habits, self-sabotage, self-destruction-the actions that cause others to judge.