Brain Quotes
Quotes on the mind, cognition, and neuroscience.
Several quotes here compare human and animal brain development, while others get technical about how scientists actually study brain tissue and electrical activity. For a narrower angle, see Brain Power.
The Hart Foundation versus The Brain Busters, if you can find that match, it is fantastic.
I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for...
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I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to...
When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that's just weird. It's hard to find a place for it in your brain that makes any sense. I'm not really comfortable...
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
I transplanted my brain into 'HQ' and that's where the dark corners of my mind got exposed: Pop culture, '90s baseball, 'Simpsons,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Mr. Show,' Phish, Grateful Dead.
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that...
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.
In the beginning, I took on every opportunity because I was so determined to get my name and music out there. You can get your sleep, but honestly your brain needs a break, too, and so many people forget that.
I believe that if we don't make moves to get people who don't play games to understand them, then the position of video games in society will never improve. Society's image of games will remain largely negative, including that stuff...
I prefer to be covered. I don't wear a lot of low-cut things. I'd rather keep the attention to my brain, my face.
I don't really go on diets because when I go on a diet, my brain stops working. I mean, really, that's all I think about: what I can eat, what I can't eat. I sort of decided that's not what...
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.
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If a quote here raises questions about cognitive decline, Brain Damage covers that territory, and Brains offers a lighter-hearted companion set.
