Brain Quotes (1055 Quotes)

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Visual imagery involves a much more primitive part of our brain, a monitoring system to sense danger. The trouble with this story is that it's not in a resolution stage yet, things are just getting worse. Usually, when we're anxious, we seek information to reduce anxiety, but in this case, we're just increasing it.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

Once in a while, you're playing and you look at the TV or the wall. The music comes in, and it sneaks its way past your brain. And all of a sudden you're playing something, and you say 'Let's keep doing this for a while.' I've learned how to let that process breathe.

There are only two sorts of doctors those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.

The more times a person pushes on the chest, the better off the patient is, because there is more blood flow to the brain and other vital organs.

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

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all good night, good night.

We recently did two benefits for a person with a brain tumor and at the first one, he was there. We love doing the benefits.

This paper is interesting and provocative, and if the value of this technique is validated in other studies, from other centres, this imaging approach may be a valuable surrogate marker of brain function in HIV infection.

Driving is done 90 percent through visual cues, and when eyes are taken off the road, the brain cannot respond in time.

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains.

The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease.

The brain is a commodity . . . used to fertilize ideas.

He Kippis might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

The frontal lobe of the brain, which controls these behaviors, matures until age 21. As children mature, some symptoms get better -- though they don't grow out of ADHD, as used to be believed, and half need treatment into adulthood.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

More brain, O Lord, more brain!

Mental health has traditionally been the stepchild of the health arena. You wouldn't even find it in the public health arena it would be shunted off to asylums and then state institutions and then eventually community mental health centers. We always want to separate the brain from the body.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

The device itself with the repetitive grasp and release exercises helps to retrain the brain so there's actual reorganization going on within the brain, which helps promote the ability to use the hand functionally.

The CIA offers one-year sabbaticals to some of its agents who are considering leaving. Those who do leave may still be tapped for their expertise on an as-needed basis. Indeed, it is common practice for the CIA to keep the security clearance of former agents long after they leave the agency so they can accept missions on an occasional basis, ... Why In order to maximize their massive training investment and, even more critical, to give the individual a strong personal incentive to maintain the integrity of the proprietary information in her brain.

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting.... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

The human brain is incapable of creating anything which is really complex.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

I think a lot of people might consider humans to be at the pinnacle of evolutionary lineage -- that we have achieved an advanced state as a species, and we have basically become the end-game. But what we found indicates that the species -- particularly when it comes to the brain, which is perhaps our most defining feature -- is still evolving.

I presume
That, as my hand has open'd bounty to you,
My heart dropp'd love, my pow'r rain'd honour, more
On you than any, so your hand and heart,
Your brain, and every function of your power,
Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,
As 'twere in love's particular, be more
To me, your friend, than any.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

A beard signifies lice, not brains.

Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.

You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease.

You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

I think this series we've spent too much time talking about what we have to do rather than just playing. That's why the last couple of game plans have been simpler. Trying to do little things rather than saturate the brain. I've always felt in the playoffs there is a balance between giving them too much information. We have so much information. We have a 280-page book on the LA Clippers.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

But why does consciousness fade during deep sleep early in the night You cannot say that consciousness fades because the brain shuts off. That's not the case. Scientists have long known that the brain remains active while we sleep, ... So what could be responsible

The actress says she was easily drawn to her character. She's a very intellectual person she's someone who is led by her brain, ... But her emotional life is so deep and mysterious that I found that combination really interesting.

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

It is so hard out there and it is such a tough course if you miss the fairways, but I managed to avoid doing that for most of the day. I have improved a lot in the last couple of years. My game feels twice as good as it has ever done and the reason for that is my brain.

It's due to the damage you incur by having the bacteria in your brain, and by your own inflammatory (swelling) response.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.