I would argue that passion is more important than brain power.

My brain… cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’… I think that’s almost worse than death.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of understanding mirror neurons and their function. They may well be central to social learning, imitation, and the cultural transmission of skills and attitudes—perhaps even of the pressed-together...

A fast tongue is a sign of a slow brain

I get migraines a lot. I get them when I’m stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

I think I’m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain’t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.

People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that’s always thinking. A good...

Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was...

Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of time,...

The Question is actually the answer

I have a copy of you in my brain; when you make me angry I do very bad things to you.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I’m trying.

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart… not so much.

He is in a wheelchair because some of the nerves in the brain have been damaged. He has had learned to talk, hold his head up and everything again.

I’m a Neuroscientist.- What’s that? What do you study?- I study your brain!

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain

Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

– because if you weren´t exposed to in utero cocaine, lead poisoning, or physical abuse, and he was, then you and he are not directly comparable.

Those ‘back burner’ thoughts, the ones the brain isn’t quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the...

What we’re most worried about is brain recovery. Anybody who suffers anoxic brain injury — inadequate oxygen to the brain — can develop a longtime disability.

my brain is my boss, and I’m my brain’s worst employee

Though my skull is the size of a soup bowl, everything in the universe—and more—can fit inside my imagination. And guess what? My imagination tastes like chicken noodle soup.

Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.

After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat… And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because...

My memories always clutch my brain to understand the past

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

As revolutionary as it may be, the Net is best understood as the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mold the human mind.

Your heart is like your brain. It has to be protected.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the...

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in...

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body’s reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It’s your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments...

Fanya kazi kwa bidii na maarifa!

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one...

I used disbelieve in fate, but now I realize that it exists. I still do not believe that it is written in somewhere by any supernatural being. It is our brain, our fate is hidden...

Basically, having a gift for happiness was a bit like being good at maths or games: it depended partly on the development of the brain after you were born, ad even before, but also on...

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven’t been activated before. These new experiences bring...

The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this...