Cerebral Quotes

• It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

  Rita Coolidge

  Jazz, Mathematical, Seems

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Mother, Children, Home

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• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Son, Talking, Years

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

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• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Intelligent

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.280, Grove Press

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• Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Strength, Adversity, Warrior

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won

  Robert M. Hensel

  Men, Disability, Reaching Beyond

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, Disability, Interest

  "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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• How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.

  John Keats

  Queens, Lying, Wine

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• Chess is a natural cerebral high.

  Walter Browne

  Chess, Natural

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• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brain, Directors, Roles

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• There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Understanding, Brain, Development

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• I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Breathing, Euphoria

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Brain

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Thinking, Skulls, Darkness

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• Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Thinking, Research

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.462, Macmillan

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• Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  Book, People, Guilt

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

  Katherine Applegate

  Selfish, Passionate, Violent

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• I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

  Lana Del Rey

  School, Trust No One, Found

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• It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Moving, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

  Vijay Iyer

  Asian, Way, Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

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• I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

  Audrey Tautou

  Photography, Writing, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Science, Isis

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Giving Up, Reality

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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