Brain Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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• Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

  Murray Bookchin

  Creative, Architect, Ecological

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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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• Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

  Hasso Plattner

  Kids, Hot, Stoves

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• It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

  Darrell Hammond

  Fun, Siege, Has Beens

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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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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Thinking, President

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• Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Ideas, Drunk

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.197, Vintage

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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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• When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.

  Yip Harburg

  Song, Heart, Excellent

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• Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Glasses, Mirrors, Broken

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• The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

  Daniel Goleman

  Art, Emotional, Symbolic Meaning

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.314, Bantam

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• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Errors, Opponents, Source

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• Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Tyrants, Stuff

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, People, Feel Good

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• I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Feelings, Playing Music

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• Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

  Henry Rollins

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.

  Jessicka

  Beautiful, Religious, Intelligent

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• It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex

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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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• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
  Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Weakness, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

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• A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It
  ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,
  forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Wine, Imagination

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. [103]

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• An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

  Walt Whitman

  Reality, Space, Daguerreotypes

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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