Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Fisher

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

Helen Fisher

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Henry Ford

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Jimmy Tillette

The game plan was to go stand on his feet, and he was wide open, so we went brain dead.

The future of manufacturing is in technology. The next generation of manufacturing champions will come from those companies that use brain power, not labor, to drive their innovations.

This is my first movie, so it's pretty overwhelming to see all those characters that were living in my own fevered little brain suddenly 30 feet tall,

Eric Jensen

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

Eric Jensen

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

Eric Bogosian

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

John Battelle

The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without replacement. Oh, and far as I can tell, a home phone won't give you brain cancer. In a perfect world, the hard line should have become a platform for building out an entire app ecosystem for the home. And yet... it didn't.

The flashing lights, the change of colors. It has a hypnotic sense to it. The brain has no sense of time, so people can sit in front of a screen for hours watching pornography.

Jim Haslett

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that we want to play where we practice, ... We'd prefer to play in Louisiana, of course. But that's not going to happen this year. We'd like to play in the Superdome, but that's not possible. So we'd prefer to be here, so we can see our families on Saturday. We don't see a lot of them during the week.

James Altucher

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

Friedrich Schiller

Intellect--brain force.

Joshua Bolten

You know, she's a very gracious and funny person. I was racking my brain trying to think of something specific.

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.

Barbara de Angelis

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

The jury is still out on what this means because we aren't entirely sure what these genes do. It's possible they just control size and shape of the brain, rather than cognition. But the data is pretty compelling that the brain is evolving.

John Sullivan

These kids train their brains out, and that's why they're all here. Everyone who ran tonight really ran well.

Peter Kenyon

It must be within the brains of all of us to find a solution.

Sanjay Gupta

It'll be a few days before we know we can even tell a prognosis. The underlying brain actually looked pretty good.

This is not brain surgery. This is common sense. I'm baffled. I really am.

Scott Westerfeld

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

Scott Adams

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Ray Kurzweil

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Tan Le

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

Swami Vivekananda

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Stephen King

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

Taylor Swift

I stay out too late Got nothing in my brain

Stephenie Meyer

Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever." I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised.

Woody Allen

If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.