Brain Quotes (1055 Quotes)


    He's asking a lot of questions, picking everybody's brain, trying to get a feel for everyone, ... He's very serious, very attentive to the details of each drill we did, stressing a high tempo and skating, and I assume that's something that's going to be stressed throughout training camp and the season.




    This was the most terrifying aspect of our findings. Even though antiretroviral drugs rescue the immune system, AIDS is still stalking the brain. A protective blood barrier prevents drugs from entering the brain, transforming it into a reservoir where HIV can multiply and attack cells unchecked.


    This disparity between simple pharmacological effects and clinical experience might be due to the time it takes for serotonin axons to grow. For the patient, this hypothesis provides more tangible evidence of a real effect in the brain.

    It takes constant practice and reinforcement, in terms of our cognitive development of our brain. The younger you start a foreign language, the more likely you are to develop proficiency in it ... a student who is 18 has a leg up on someone who is 40, just like an elementary student will have a leg up on a college student, and may have a chance to achieve near-native proficiency.



    We can do immediate neurosurgical head trauma. If your brain is swelling from bleeding, you don't have a whole lot of time. You cannot wait to go to Germany.


    Essentially, we activate an area. We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activated, it responds by sending signals, waves that travel through the axons (nerve fibers) to other regions of the brain. At the same time, we can record how the rest of the brain is responding.

    We were trying to kick the bag out of each other, ... Ryan doesn't believe me when I tell him this, but he is so unbelievably strong. If he had gone as hard as he could have for the last two laps he would have won no question. But when you try and play McCormack's game he's going to lose, because Mark already has 150 finished just like that in his brain.


    Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.



    The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.

    There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems.

    I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.


    It is the worst influenza virus that I have ever seen. When you put it in a ferret, it causes hind leg paralysis and goes to the brain. Don't take it lightly, because it could wipe the hell out of us.

    One of the cardinal features of addiction is how long-lived it is, ... A key question in the field has been By what mechanisms do drugs of abuse cause changes in the brain that last this long.

    It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.



    I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

    How is education supposed to make me feel smarter Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive

    A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

    The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss

    This is an enormous disappointment, ... The unfortunate consequence of this decision will be a brain drain because most of the civilian workers simply will not move to China Lake. It makes no sense to waste the skills of the talented people already doing these jobs in Ventura County.


    What I love about her is she makes dreams more understandable. There is so much we don't understand in this world...we only use 10 percent of our brains. There's 90 percent where we just don't understand (things) ... working with Susan, we're using some of that 90 percent.








    It's something that I've been really excited about for the past week. I've kind of picked the brains of some friends on other teams - 'Who did you vote for, what's going on' - and I had a good feeling about it, but you never know. There's a lot of deserving guys who don't get in.

    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


    The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

    I think the brain didn't quite communicate with the same confidence to where I thought I actually hit it. Normally when I hit a putt, I make it. Once you get them near the hole you just have to roll them in.

    I would think he'll do well with his experience as a catcher on world championship teams and then coaching with Joe, sitting next to him and picking his brain, ... I know a lot of guys that have coached, and then when they become managers, they change. Hopefully he won't change.

    The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

    We call them twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they've read the news -- or if they've blown dried their brains, too.


    We have been saying for years and years and years the expert testimony showed that Terri's eye movements and apparent responses to visual stimuli was a reflexive action, ... It was the result of a brain stem activity, which is consistent in PVS persistent vegetative state patients. She had no critical sight, and that was a finding by the medical examiner as well.



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