Brain Quotes - Page 29

• I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.

  Eric Bachmann

  Writing, Roots, Underdog

  "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

  Jane McGonigal

  Stress, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

  Philippa Perry

  Challenges, Healthy, Had Enough

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him - I think that's the story. For some reason it's a thing that sticks in my brain. He's describing this scene where he sees all these almost biblical images happening kind of in this burrow where this biblical train runs through this yard.

  Justin Vernon

  Running, Song, Biblical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.

  David Pajo

  Song, Blow, Long Ago

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Memories, Sleep

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

  Jane McGonigal

  Real, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

  Philippa Perry

  Pathways, Different, Strokes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.

  Philippa Perry

  Memories, Interesting, Age

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

  Philippa Perry

  Fall, Thinking, Track

  Source: bigthink.com

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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 think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Thinking, May, Timing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. It's a great network. It's the golden network of cable, so it's totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Thinking, Faithful

  Source: collider.com

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• The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this immersive kind of very attentive thinking, whether you are paying attention to a story or to an argument, or whatever. And what we know about the brain is the brain adapts to these types of tools.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Stories, Pages

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.

  Bill Crawford

  Worry, Make Sense, Worry And Fear

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• Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.

  Claudine Andre

  Sides, Size, Helping

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I will cross that bridge when it comes. I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm. I am into it in a big way, and I am good at it, and I am going to get very, very rich and then I will get out and we will see what comes after that.

  Conor McGregor

  Stupid, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Three, Kind, Explanation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.73, Race Point Publishing

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• Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Different

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• To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.

  Mike Portnoy

  Touching, Mind, Doubt

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• There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Exercise, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

  Ani DiFranco

  Summer, Nice, Thinking

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• But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.

  Christina Applegate

  Men, Different, Jokes

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