Brain Quotes - Page 40

• What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

  John Shelby Spong

  Able, Deities, Kind

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat or dog book; I felt compelled. At the time (May 1999), I was planning to write and illustrate an altogether different memoir, a book about my decision whether or not to have a baby.

  Suzy Becker

  Dog, Baby, Book

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room.

  Suzy Becker

  Air, Speech, Rooms

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Behavior, Bigs, Muscles

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Interesting, Bigger, Species

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Understanding, Important, Etc

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala and insular cortex, brain regions that are all about fear, anxiety, aggression, and disgust.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Anxiety, Subliminal, Fractions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  School, Years, Law

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.

  Russell Means

  Divorce, Vision, Limits

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jelly, Ears, Enough

  Source: www.sffworld.com

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• I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, People, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Stress

  Source: genius.com

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• Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Ohio, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I tried to get Adam Sandler hired on a movie called "Brain Donors" and the producers wouldn't hire him. And a few years later, he was doing "Happy Gilmore" and he remembered I had fought for him, so he hired me.

  Dennis Dugan

  Years, Adam, Donors

  Source: thesource.com

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• I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.

  John Larroquette

  Reading, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

  John Larroquette

  Way, Literature, Worthwhile

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

  George Saunders

  Running, Buddhist, Powerful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've said, I think since the second one [part of Twilight Saga ], that it's going to take 10 years to really settle in my brain, and I'm four years into it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Writing, Discipline, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses: "This poem is kind of important to me. I don't know why, but I'm going to just keep it in the back of my mind." I just kept coming back to it. As I started putting the book together and writing the stories for it, this idea of buzzing as a word kept popping up in my brain.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.

  John Medina

  Home, School, Suffering

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

  John Medina

  Loss, Survival, World

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the most incredible fact about the brain is that it is the only piece of biological real estate that can actually study itself. I can think about that for decades - I have, actually - and still be in drop dead amazement.

  John Medina

  Real, Thinking, Pieces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

  John Medina

  Unique, Way, Wiring

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

  John Medina

  Way, Twins, Identical Twin

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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