Brain Quotes - Page 25

• There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

  Moby

  Negativity, Environment, Threatening

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.

  Ice Cube

  Personality, Trying, Needs

  "Chilling with Ice". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2010.

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• If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Fun, Men, Race

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• Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

  Jefferson Smith

  Muscles, Weary, Exhaustion

  Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.192, Indie Ink Publishing

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• The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Men, Profound

  "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.

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• The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Pounds, Three, Neurons

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• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Prison, Universe

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• If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

  Meryl Streep

  Use, Obliged, Ifs

  Interview with Wendy Wasserstein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Stupid, Had Enough, Enough

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• One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

  George Lakoff

  Simple, People, Identity

  George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.45, Penguin

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• Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

  James Nesbitt

  Thinking, Lasts, Remember

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• Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

  Michael Shermer

  Survival, Machines, World

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• There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Loneliness, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Facts, Lessons

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• Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Engineering, Hands

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• Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Light, Smell

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• Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Taken, Lines, Misery

  "Joy 24x7". Book by Jaggi Vasudev, 2008.

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• I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

  Adam Savage

  Beautiful, Moving, Skeletons

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• The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Paul Davies (2006). “God and the New Physics”, p.244, Penguin UK

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• Actually, now I don't even eat that much anymore. If you tried to follow me now, you'd be in trouble. You wouldn't be able to follow through on life during the day. You wouldn't focus. You'd get brain cramps, probably.

  Robby Albarado

  Focus, Able, Trouble

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• I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

  Bette Davis

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.

  Tinsel Korey

  Independent, Emotional, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Song, Writing, Unique

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• I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

  ASAP Rocky

  Thinking, Want, Way

  "Interview: A$AP Rocky On His Debut Album 'Long.live.A$AP' And Upcoming NZ Show". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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