Brain Quotes - Page 26

• My father was all brain and little heart.

  Stephen Fry

  Father, Heart, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people's heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That's what the great filmmakers did for me. I've got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Important, Want

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• There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of sleep is where the brain basically gets into step with itself and gets into this one single phase of these relatively slow brain waves - around 10 Hz or so - and the whole brain 'fires all at once'. This is a brilliant bit of sleep where we consolidate memory and learning, and memory is one of my obsessions really.

  Max Richter

  Memories, Sleep, Fire

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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• Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

  Paul Dudley White

  Healthy, Adults, Citizens

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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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• I never think about anything in my brain. I think in very small repetitive circles inside my own brain. That's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I get any sort of conclusion or understanding about anything.

  Melissa Febos

  Thinking, Circles, Understanding

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Strong, Guitar, Sticks

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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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• I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Whole, Left

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• I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.

  William Mapother

  Philosophical, Reading, Interesting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and with our aging population, it's a growing problem. It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

  Graham Shiels

  Mom, Alzheimer's, Grandfather

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• As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.

  Eric Lange

  Thinking, People, Devil

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• I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up. I believe we are creating in every moment - making up our reality, so to speak - so when anything gets chaotic or I feel spun out, I remind myself that everything is an interpretation. I can look at it differently and make it work for me in a more positive light.

  Dash Mihok

  Morning, Believe, Reality

  "Dash Mihok Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Heart, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Interesting, Cameras, Littles

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Design, Height, Limits

  Source: collider.com

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• An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Class, Want, Firsts

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• For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Support, World

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

  Michael Lesy

  Thinking, Years, People

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• From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating language, is dependent on a group of cells inside of my brain functioning in a healthy, happy way. I realized in order to get well I had to make the cells that performed those functions well again. It gave me an entirely different way to look at myself as an individual and at all of us as people.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Get Well, Cells, Order

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• The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Past, Details, Hemisphere

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