Brain Quotes

"Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness"

Herman Melville, Novelist

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

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available"

Layne Staley, Musician

"I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize"

Gary Coleman, Actor

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain"

Martin Mull, Actor

"If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease"

Robert Barany, Scientist

"Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things"

Kate Moss, Model

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy"

Tom Robbins, Author

"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast"

Brian May, Musician

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

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