Quotes About Brain

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, "Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.

Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

The world we experience as 'out there' is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It's an act of creation by the storytelling brain.

Story is what brain does. It is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'. Story emerges from human minds as naturally as breath emerges from between human lips. You don't have to be a genius to master it. You're already doing it. Becoming better at telling stories is simply a matter of peering inwards, at the mind itself, and asking how it does it.

us?" Hal's analytical brain was working hard. "It can't be a personal grudge. You get along with everybody. You haven't any personal enemies. It can't be political—you don't mix in politics. There are lots of revolutionaries in these Latin American countries with axes to grind, but you've never had anything to do with that sort of thing. So it must be economic." "What

On materialist principles, our minds are limited to the material constitution of our brains (minds transcending brains are simply not an option for materialism), and our brains are simply more complicated arrangements of balls going down inclined planes and coins being tossed. Thus we are not in control, we are not free.

Although all things in excess bring harm, the greatest danger comes from excessive good fortune: it stirs the brain, invites the mind to entertain idle fancies, and shrouds in thick fog the distinction between falsehood and truth.

In the words of Libet, "The initiation of the freely voluntary act appears to begin in the brain unconsciously, well before the person consciously knows he wants to act!

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

There are four things that we know improve brain health and brain function," says Shubin Stein. "Meditation, exercise, sleep, and nutrition.

Sing, Susu, through your severed head, through your severed arteries; and I shall put my mouth to your lips as though you were such an instrument. My breath shall reinflate your brain. Susu, O bag of pipes, I approach you in my dreams.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

nuclei accumbens fire not only with reward, but even more intensely with its anticipation, be it culinary, sexual, social, or financial.