Brain Quotes - Page 27

• 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 would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

  Luke Kirby

  Theatre, Wire, Would Be

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Personality, World, Compassionate

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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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• A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

  Ed Speleers

  Auditions, Fit, Working It

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.

  Johnny Depp

  Mean, Thinking, Film

  "Johnny Depp, Tim Burton Interview - Dark Shadows". www.moviesonline.ca.

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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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• 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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• Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that circuit. Eventually it gets enough energy to run the thought automatically without us needing to put more energy into it.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Running, Thinking, Energy

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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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• I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Perception, Needs

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

  Patricia Churchland

  Psychology, Mind, Needs

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream production? And that would allow us to have characters that represent emotions. And that felt like, man, that's exactly what animation does best - strong, opinionated, caricatured personalities. And that just got me excited.

  Pete Docter

  Dream, Strong, Character

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, "ow" and Moe says, "Serves you right Numbskull", you can say that's because they're separate beings, and that's true.

  Brad Warner

  Facts, Contradiction

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured with them all the way up to and including Soundgarden, who we've toured with three times now. We also toured with Metallica for a year. But yeah, Megadeth was the only one we were a little sketchy about because um, it was a little sketchy.

  Reed Mullin

  Names, Years, Black

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If I can choose who I am in the moment, then I can choose to come in as my left brain personality and all of the skill sets that goes with that.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Who I Am, Skills, Personality

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• In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

  Patricia Churchland

  Levels, States, Process

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

  Patricia Churchland

  Machines

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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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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• It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

  Patricia Churchland

  Years, Planets, Humans

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.

  Manny Alvarez

  Appreciation, Children, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

  David Papineau

  Mind, Identity, Problem

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Views, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".

  Josh Gondelman

  Beautiful, Dog, Girlfriend

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