Central Nervous System Quotes

• Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb—it is bound to explode.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Spiritual, Discipline, Would Be

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• The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Men, Hula

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• The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Eye, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Brain, Environmental

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• Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

  George Crumb

  Elements, Nervous, Rhythm

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Machines, Levels

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Growth

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• It is only the Sahasrara has to grow, not the Spirit. The more sensitive the Sahasrara is, the more it receives the spiritual qualities of the Spirit. Actually the peace is felt in the Sahasrara. The bliss is also felt in the Sahasrara because that is the brain and the brain is the epitome of our nervous system, central nervous system, of consciousness itself.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Data, Differences

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.55, Vintage

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• I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

  Lewis Thomas

  Hard Work, Science, Brain

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Perfect, Enemy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

  Darin Strauss

  Running, Dark, Emotional

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.14, Random House

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• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Meditation, Mind

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• He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Nervous, Nervous System

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• Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Compassion, Culture, Nervous

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• Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

  Max Eastman

  Laughter, Play, Brain

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• You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. . . listen, there is something a little weird going down on me." "What?" "I smell like men's cologne." "Good for you. Females dig that kind of thing." "Vishous, I smell like Obsession for Men, only I'm not WEARING any, you feel me?" There was silence on the line. Then, "Humans don't bond." "Oh, really. You want to tell that to my central nervous system and my sweat glands? They'd appreciate the news flash, I'm sure.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Sweat, Smell

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• Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Nervous, Electricity, Human Experience

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• The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Character, Science, Age

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has to be proved. That God Almighty has to be proved. That Christ as a son of God has to be proved, that His birth as immaculate conception has to be proved. Not by argument, not by reasoning, nor by blind faith but by actualization on your central nervous system.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Believe

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• Now the truth is that the Spirit is within you and you are the Spirit. You are the beauty, the bliss and the joy of that Spirit. That's what you are . Because your attention is not there, that's why you cannot feel your Spirit. But your Spirit exists; it is within you, in your heart, waiting for a moment to come into your conscious mind, to be felt by you in your central nervous system. It's all there, built within you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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