Famous Quotes & Sayings

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

Driving is done 90 percent through visual cues, and when eyes are taken off the road, the brain cannot respond in time.

Five different brains going at the same time it's easy to get sidetracked, but being on the same level is what brought us this far.

Neil Young

At our school, we deal with kids who have brain injuries, strokes, cerebral palsy, things like that. I'm very familiar with that. So I was thinking of not being able to do what I do. It didn't freak me out. It just made me think: Now you've got to play this card. Now you're going to do what you can, in the time that you have.

Doctors will purposely keep his pressure in his brain under control by heavily sedating him so as not to raise the pressure and make the swelling worse.

Ryan Doumit

Cota is a great player and we've got a good rapport. I learned a lot from him. I pick his brains because he's been there. He's been real supportive.

Corey is a better defender at this stage than Bruce was, but it's all about finding your niche in the NBA. The Spurs fell in love with Bruce because of his commitment to defense. Bruce grew up watching Michael Cooper play for the Lakers, and he used to pick my brain about what kind of player Cooper was.

Cooling the brain is sort of putting it down to sleep a little bit.

Donald Trump

I use my brain as a playground, not as a calendar.

David Perlmutter

Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

Gillian Anderson

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

John Updike

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Brain tumor patients tend to suffer a lot of cancer symptoms even after therapy,

Brain research shows the brain has more capacity to learn in the first five years than in the entire rest of a person's life,

Tony Oliva

Brain dead? You can't be brain dead to play baseball, because you always have to adjust. Latin players, they're smart. I have friends all over the world, Spanish friends and English-speaking friends. They don't care. If you're good, you're good.

Vision doesn't happen in the eye. It happens at multiple processing stages in the brain. We study how objects are signaled or encoded by large populations of neurons at higher-level stages in the object-processing part of the brain.

What our experiment demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention.

Louis L'Amour

What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i

E. P. Thompson

We found that the frontal lobes were the last to develop. These brain regions control inhibition, rash actions, rage and anger.

We kind of went brain dead for 10 seconds in a 2-2 game.

You can't check your brain at the door, ... I'd like to encourage people to be wise consumers and not take any information at face value.

You can't be off on your own. It's going to take resources and it's going to take multiple brain power and it's going to take creativity from more than one person.

You can measure the distance to go through brain to see whether you're drilling through too much brain. If you don't like it, you can change your approach.

We're suffering from a shortage of rigorous ideas about what's happening to function in the human brain in these diseases.

Stephen Jay Gould

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Stephen Jay Gould

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

Jonathan Adelstein

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.

is one of the leading candidates for explaining how the changes we see in the brains of schizophrenics might have come about.

I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain.

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).