Brain Power Quotes

• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable

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• Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

  Eartha Kitt

  School, Successful, Air

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• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

  Larry Wall

  Power, Design, Community

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• Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing Money, Brain, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  A. N. Wilson

  Birthday, School, Exercise

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• Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Keys, Creative

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• It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

  Richelle Mead

  Brain, Impossible, Made

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge.  Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power and propel you along at ever-increasing speeds. It’s not an exclusive path with access granted only to those with a special gift for learning. It is, instead, available to everyone who has a brain. Anything’s possible.

  Dominic O'Brien

  Memories, Keys, Imagination

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

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• What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Player, Emotional

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• We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Miracle, Brain

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• The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Brain, Different, Analysis

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• Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Brain, Blame, Finding Someone

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)”, p.171, Random House

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• Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

  Steven Weber

  Smart, Commitment, Space

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• What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

  Charlie Munger

  Passion, What Matters, People

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• Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Russia, Brain

  Remarks to Students at St. Petersburg University, Russia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2002.

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• There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hands, Brain, Variation

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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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• The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

  Benjamin Graham

  Men, People, Imperfection

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part V, Chapter XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, p. 234, 1937.

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• Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

  Gail Zappa

  Brain, Criminals, Details

  Source: therumpus.net

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