Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer

Reading is food for the brain.

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

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.

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...

If my ‘mind’ don’t mind, I don’t mind.

That’s when I found out it was a tumor, and that he had fluid on the brain, which was building up and that’s why he couldn’t walk. You never think your child has a brain...

Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya kudumu. Tamaa ya ngono kimsingi huanza pindi unapokutana na mtu. Tamaa hiyo huweza...

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference...

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

There comes a time in a man’s life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

He is moving and responding to stimuli and the things that we’re doing. It means that he has brain function, central nervous system function if he responds to stimuli. That’s good.

Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It’s not an add-on at the end of the day.

My clone will have my mind, but I don’t mind. Two heads are better than one—especially when those two are one and the same.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.

Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.

What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?

Something I owe to the soil that grew–More to the life that fed–But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or...

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and...

Being healthy is a way of life. It’s not just about what you feed your body; it’s about what you feed your mind and the social environment you keep. Make healthy food choices, exercise your...

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not...

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking

Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.”Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.””And he has Brain.””Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.”There was a long silence.”I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

Shindana na wenzako kuwa juu zaidi katika tasnia uliyojichagulia.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

I shall be found with ‘Indians’ engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions!

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my...

The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the...

We can do a lot more in our everyday lives to prevent brain injuries. I’d like to see everyone here, when they buy that next car, make sure it has side airbags. And make sure...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals… We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for...

All the same,’ said the Scarecrow,’I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”I shall take the heart,’ returned...

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The pressure isn’t on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

I’m an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain...

I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort...

Every heart has its own brain; it’s the mind that has to find its own heart to train itself to see the soul’s right path that makes the life’s journey worthwhile.

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left...

…21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. ‘Tis my mind that is starving.

…not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as “meaningful,” it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.