Famous Quotes & Sayings

Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Juliana Hatfield

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

Seth Shostak

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

Our study provides insight into how chronic stress triggers changes in the brain that are much more long-lived than the effects of existing antidepressants.

Our findings do not support these beliefs. In the present study, we found no relationship between brain shrinkage and education level.

Research is showing more and more that using movement and doing brainteasers increases the overall health of your brain.

Sonny Rollins

Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get.

Becca Fitzpatrick

and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.

Bill Shankly

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

Bill Crawford

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

Bill Engvall

The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Carl Sagan

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10 14 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

Antoine Rivarol

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

Cherry Jones

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

Jeremy Foley

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

I think it's one of the most devastating diseases on the planet. It robs you of the person one memory, one moment, one brain cell at a time.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

I think that, with some notable exceptions, the community of scientists was excessively optimistic about how quickly imaging would have an impact on psychiatry. In their enthusiasm, people forgot that the human brain is the most complex object in the history of human inquiry, and it's not at all easy to see what's going wrong.

I was happy to see Kyle and Caleb finally play the way they're capable of playing. Kyle had a great first set, but than he went a little brain-dead in the second set and started doing things he knew he shouldn't have been doing.

Andy Roddick

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out why people are getting hurt.

Maria Bamford

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

It didn't paralyze her, though. It's pretty ugly but at least it didn't go into her brain.

I think many people recognized that having the oldest kindergartners in the country is not a good thing. We know so much more about child development and brain research that we know the earlier we get them to school, the better.

Bret Boone

I don't know where my brain was. Somewhere it never was before. Well, I'm back from outer space.

Jonathan Adelstein

I am alarmed by reports that data brokers are obtaining and selling customers' personal telephone records without the customers' consent or knowledge. These records can include some of the most private personal information about an individual. Finding out who people are calling and for how long can be like picking someone's brain about their friends, plans or business dealings.

He didn't want to overwhelm me with a bunch of stuff, ... But I picked his brain and said, 'I don't care if you overwhelm me. I've got a lot of stuff to work on and the last month and all off-season to work on it and want to get right.'

Shiloh Walker

Ah, typical writing day? Well, I tend to do e-mail and the business stuff of writing more in the morning while my brain wakes up and then write more in the afternoon, sometimes from about 11 until 5, or 12 until 5. If a story is driving me nuts, I'll work more in the evenings, but usually I try not to do that. That's family time.

Ozzy Osbourne

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Richard Stallman

I found it tremendously humiliating to be there because most of the kids there were brain dead or psychotic.

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

From thy eyes, thy nostrils, ears, and chin--the disease which is seated in thy head--from thy brain and tongue I do tear it out.

Michael Bradley

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.