Brain Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

  Cory Arcangel

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

  Kevin Rose

  Years, Add, Way

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• Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Self, Support

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.233, Random House

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• My friend taught me this one. You take the heel of your hand, you can shove someone's nose right through their brain. I can't even watch someone blow their nose. If I'm in a fight, I'm not gonna be shoving or poking, I'm gonna be running or begging - that's my two choices, right there.

  Andy Kindler

  Running, Fighting, Blow

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• I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing is that I'm doing that day. If I'm working on a pop song, I'm working on a pop song to the best of my ability. If I'm working on a bluegrass song, it's the same thing. They're not really different parts of the brain.

  Chris Stapleton

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long Ago, Wake Up, May

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.81, Penguin

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• There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Tools, Use

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.

  Bill Engvall

  Destiny, Texas, Age

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  J. B. Smoove

  Next, Gears, Clubs

  "JB Smoove, comic and torturer". TheWrap.com Interview, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Skills are really just circuits in your brain

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Circuits

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• There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

  William E. Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Energy

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• The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

  Deepak Chopra

  New Experiences, Age, Quality

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• Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words.

  George Horne

  Abuse, Age, Swamps

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• At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Animal, Psychics

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• To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.

  Jake Lodwick

  Monitoring, Portions, Audience

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• For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

  Joseph Campbell

  Order, Quests, Harmony

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

  Peter Gabriel

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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• The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk.

  Jello Biafra

  People, Interesting, Band

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• You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I was just a kid who wrote down thoughts to organize her brain and that turned into music, like any other writer or musician... so, I happen to be a girl. I don't consider that part of it really.. It may disappoint some feminists out there that I don't want to harp on women and men being equal.

  Lacey Mosley

  Girl, Kids, Men

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• Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.

  Black Thought

  Ties, Nerves, Phrenology

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• One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.

  Bette Davis

  Thinking, Enemy, Female

  "Bette Davis Skewers Sexism In Unheard Interview From 1963" by Avery Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2014.

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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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• What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Thinking, Leaving, Chocolate

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• I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

  Zach Condon

  Trying, Flow, Melody

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