Nervous System Quotes

• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Views, Perception

  "Power, Freedom, and Grace". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2006.

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• Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

  Galen

  Keys, Looks, Nervous

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Allies

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

  Norbert Wiener

  Past, Decision, Machines

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Differences, Preparation

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.29, Penguin

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• My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Hippie, Games, People

  Quoted in East Village Other, 15 Apr. - 1 May 1966

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• God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Integrity, Forgiving, May

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• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Worst Enemy, Nineteen, Nervous

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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• Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Thinking, Skills, Feet

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• Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

  Temple Grandin

  Pressure, Calming, Nervous

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Cells, Facts

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  Daniel Dennett

  Home, Rocks, Sea

  Consciousness Explained ch. 7 (1991)

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• Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Heart, Knowledge, Science

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• When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

  Russell Hoban

  Men, Worry, Suffering

  The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Ch. 13

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• The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Law, Nervous

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• Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Motivational, Attitude

  Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.55, Penguin

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• There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friendship, Memories, Heart

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophical, Feet

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Oil, Nervous

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• I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Religious, Technology

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• The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Men, Hula

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• The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

  Michael Gazzaniga

  Brain, Nervous, Adaptation

  Michael S. Gazzaniga (2000). “The Mind's Past”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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