Brain Quotes - Page 8

• I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

  Colin Farrell

  Sleep, Thinking, Feet

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Player, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

  Peter Coveney

  Unique, Thinking, Space

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• Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if it can ever be achieved - will require approaches that are drastically different from the way we understand other physical systems.

  Richard Restak

  Understanding, Different, Way

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• The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

  Frederick Tilney

  Progress, Body, Source

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• The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

  James D. Watson

  Cells, Mind, Connections

  Foreword for "Discovering the Brain" by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii, 1992.

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• I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

  John McGraw

  Winning, Thinking, Ifs

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

  Alan Turing

  Powerful, President, Telephones

  Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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• Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

  Joy Adamson

  Responsibility, Animal, Environmental

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• The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

  Michael Shermer

  Molecules, Atoms, Half

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• The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

  George Steiner

  Heart, Love Is, Expression

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• Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

  Joshua Jackson

  Beautiful, Eye, Wicked

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• [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

  Shawn Achor

  Educational, Reality, Views

  "The happy secret to better work". TEDxBloomington Talk, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Ideas, Commodity

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• The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

  Jeremy Brett

  Heart, Men, Swag

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• I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Learning, Thinking, Important

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Wakes You

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• I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

  Lexa Doig

  School, Come Up, Wanted

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• I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

  Ben Hecht

  Sports, Hollywood, Jackets

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• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Angel, Piglet

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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• The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

  James D. Watson

  Complexes, Universe

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• All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

  Sam Mendes

  Trying, Going Out, Territory

  "Sam smiles" by Simon Fanshawe, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2000.

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• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Nerves, Shakes

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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