Brain Quotes - Page 23

• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Age

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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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• 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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• Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doe, Shapes, Neural Networks

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jun 27, 2012

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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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• Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.

  Jerry Mander

  Mind, Watches, Television

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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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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Order, Organization

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• Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.

  Joseph E. LeDoux

  Thinking, Feelings, Deep Within

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• We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Winning

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• If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Impact, Meditation

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• Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Book, Messages

  Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.27, Penguin

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• Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Way, Reason

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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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• War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.

  Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

  War, Battle, Moral Strength

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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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• There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.

  Manny Alvarez

  Appreciation, Children, Parent

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Workout, Book, Reading

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