Brain Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• 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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• In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man...If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Two, Mind

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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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• Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

  Timothy Leary

  Numbers, Space, People

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• I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my brain. Both directors combine moral seriousness with great artistry and, certainly in Hitchcock's case, an enormous respect for plot, for its power to enthrall and delight.

  Adam Ross

  Years, Tutelage, Directors

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.

  Tim Noakes

  Believe, Decision, Doubt

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• If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not one whit. If their belief rests in man's wisdom and not in God's power, they are merely excited in their soul.

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Soul, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.79, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sorry to disappoint the liberals who tuned in tonight to gloat about Obama's lead in every poll, but I am not worried. McCain may be behind, but the man is a fighter. He doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit.' He used to, but it was stored in the same part of his brain that remembered to vet his running mate.

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Sorry, Men

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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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• 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'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

  "N.I.H. Director Francis Collins On Agency Goals". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 11, 2009.

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• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, 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

  Song, Strong, Writing

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