Brain Quotes

‘I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.’ – Dr. Seuss

‘Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘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

‘When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.’ – Mark Twain

‘This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.’ – Dalai Lama

‘We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.’ – Louis Nizer

‘Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don’t normally use.’ – Ezra Koenig

‘The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.’ – Robert Frost

‘A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.’ – Ada Lovelace

‘Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.’ – King James I

‘My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?’ – Virginia Woolf

‘Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.’ – John C. Crosby

‘Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.’ – Carl Sagan

‘Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.’ – David Goggins

‘You can’t change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you’re thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.’ – Ernesto Bertarelli

‘Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.’ – Jules Renard

‘Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘The brain is wider than the sky.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘I’m different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying’s for fools, dying’s for amateurs.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.’ – George Jessel

‘The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.’ – Tom Robbins

‘In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan – he told me that I might die if I didn’t go through with it.’ – Eliot Sumner

‘There’s something messed up with my brain.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different – the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.’ – Stanley B. Prusiner

‘The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.’ – Danica McKellar

‘Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.’ – Farrah Fawcett

‘By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.’ – Mark Rober

‘How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.’ – Alan Watts

‘Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.’ – Joe Frazier

‘There are plenty of skills I’ve learned from playing video games. It’s more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you’re using your brain.’ – Shaun White

‘Don’t ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that’ll get you a million dollars – your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don’t go crazy, make sure I help my family.’ – Future

‘I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.’ – Mike Tyson

‘Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.’ – Brett Hoebel

‘I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.’ – Groucho Marx

‘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

‘I believe the only muscles you need in basketball are the ones in your brain.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘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.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it!’ – Daniel Dennett

‘Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.’ – Helen Keller

‘I learned a lot more about transgender people. It’s not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.’ – Mercedes Ruehl

‘An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.’ – Graham Greene

‘I’m crazy, I’m nuts. Just the way my brain works. I’m not normal. I think differently.’ – Justin Bieber

‘A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.’ – Steve Carell

‘We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.’ – Alan Turing

‘The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.’ – David Suzuki

‘Juvenile justice is probably the area that’s most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there’s no getting around the fact that a teenage brain is not an adult brain.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can’t even spell. I don’t even have a high school diploma. I’m smart, but you can’t prove it on paper.’ – Ron White

‘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.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.’ – Bennet Omalu

‘I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.’ – L. Frank Baum

‘That’s your best friend and your worst enemy – your own brain.’ – Fred Durst

‘Number one – and I want you to emblaze this on your brain – you only have one chance to make a first impression.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, ‘My behavior matters,’ which is optimism.’ – Shawn Achor

‘If God truly wanted me to stop, all He’d have to do is have one doctor at the Mayo Clinic find something wrong with my brain. Just one little CAT scan showing any sign of trauma or damage, and I’d be done.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.’ – N. Scott Momaday

‘The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.’ – Jack Ma

‘Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.’ – Mark Hyman

‘Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.’ – Jim Mattis

‘Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.’ – Bob Ehrlich

‘Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.’ – Ken Jennings

‘If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.’ – George Clinton

‘The human brain is a funny thing: it’s very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.’ – Ray Stevens

‘Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.’ – Rohit Sharma

‘You don’t have to use aggression to squash somebody. You have to use your brain.’ – Tony Ferguson

‘Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It’s extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.’ – Michelle Paver

‘Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.’ – David Eagleman

‘The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.’ – Edward de Bono

‘And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.’ – Arthur Bryant

‘Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.’ – Martin Mull

‘I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.’ – Leonard Mlodinow

‘My brain acts bizarrely and I keep having major mood swings.’ – Gareth Thomas

‘Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others – it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.’ – Glenn Beck

‘The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.’ – Robert Cormier

‘I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.’ – John Kennedy

‘Your brain – every brain – is a work in progress. It is ‘plastic.’ From the day we’re born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.’ – Michael Merzenich

‘Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I think it’s good to eat a bit of everything, but when you eat too much junk food, it’s bad for you and for your brain. You don’t understand why, but you feel sad. It’s because of the junk food!’ – Stromae

‘My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.’ – Shakira

‘Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.’ – Harvey Milk

‘It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.’ – Dale Dauten

‘Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It’s not brain surgery.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a ‘fresh’ brain – one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.’ – Maryanne Wolf

‘It’s just health. They call it mental health, but your brain is part of your body. It’s an injury. You just can’t see it.’ – Mardy Fish

‘People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘I think people respond to dystopian stories because they’re ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media’s coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don’t know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.’ – Christian Bale

‘I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.’ – Patricia Schroeder

‘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

‘You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’.’ – David Hume

‘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

‘Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, ‘to do’ lists.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.’ – John Calvin

‘The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn’t have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.’ – Tom Ford

‘I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around ‘Facebook is changing our brains’ strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.’ – Clay Shirky

‘I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‘Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.” – Drake

‘We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.’ – Timothy Leary

‘What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.’ – St. Jerome

‘Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects to your health. Training your brain to manage stress won’t just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it.’ – Amy Morin

‘It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.’ – Hayao Miyazaki

‘One time I happened to use the word ‘denigrate’ onstage, and it didn’t get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.’ – Bob Newhart

‘Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.’ – Carlos Santana

‘When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.’ – Hamlin Garland

‘The fact that three-fifths of an octopus’ neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.’ – Sy Montgomery

‘God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.’ – Rita Levi-Montalcini

‘There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.’ – Antonio Damasio

‘If you’re only using 10 percent of your brain, you don’t even know that you’re using 10 percent of your brain. If you’re only using 10 percent of something, that means you don’t know the rest of the 90!’ – Michael Beasley

‘In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.’ – George Szell

‘Breathing exercises produce brain waves.’ – Wim Hof

‘Working is not instantly rewarding. It’s a long process, and it’s much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘The social brain is in its natural habitat when we’re talking with someone face-to-face in real time.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘What is this? It’s music to get a brain seizure by.’ – Ozzy Osbourne

‘We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them ‘graham crackers.” – Paul Mooney

‘Ideas are all around you – everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.’ – Bruce Coville

‘If you have a negative thought – ‘I can’t stand my boss’ – it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.’ – Bill Maris

‘The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it’s memories, it’s sensory input and output. The mind is the person.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘I’ve had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I’ve had jokes stolen from me in the club when I’m next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I’ll go onstage and create a whole new bit.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.’ – Michael Greger

‘People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.’ – Emma Mackey

‘There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Moore’s Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.’ – Paul Allen

‘I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

‘For every single person who’s struggled with depression, there’s this weird part of your brain that tells you you’re the only person who’s ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it’s not true.’ – Phoebe Bridgers

‘If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.’ – Ramakrishna

‘I don’t know if I can relax. Relax, I can’t do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.’ – Johnny Depp

‘The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.’ – Frida Kahlo

‘Your heart and your instincts are far more reliable than your brain. When you follow your heart, you can be sure you won’t regret it later. Even if you calculate your every move, it’s not like life ever goes according to plan.’ – Nithya Menen

‘All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.’ – Roger Bacon

‘When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.’ – Tadao Ando

‘To think is to practice brain chemistry.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.’ – Chris Evans

‘For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.’ – Brie Larson

‘And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.’ – Terrence Howard

‘Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend a lot of time on those two causes. I also tend to support military charities like Warrior Gateway, which helps guys transition from combat back into civilian life.’ – Anthony Scaramucci

‘I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don’t stop.’ – Bob Saget

‘Between my brain and my mouth there should be a filter where common sense kicks in before I deliver a word, but I think when God made me he forgot the filter.’ – Gino D’Acampo

‘I’m the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up. They taught me that everyone has a special and unique trait about them, and that mine is that I have a girl brain and a boy body.’ – Jazz Jennings

‘There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.’ – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we’d like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.’ – Matt Haig

‘The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?’ – Ghostface Killah

‘My brain is open.’ – Paul Erdos

‘With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘It felt like dancing was my only way of expressing myself until I got into writing, and then I realized that there were two sides of my brain that I needed to work all the time.’ – Tate McRae

‘A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can’t fold a paper in a crowded train.’ – Phyllis McGinley

‘An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘Morality is the weakness of the brain.’ – Arthur Rimbaud

‘The brain’s calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you’re neglecting that, you’re basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.’ – Joshua Bell

‘In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn’t sure what to do next, I would go and learn a lot, read a lot, talk to experts. I don’t know how the human brain works, but it’s almost magical: when you read enough or talk to enough experts, when you have enough inputs, new ideas start appearing. This seems to happen for a lot of people that I know.’ – Andrew Ng

‘The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.’ – Francis Collins

‘Books, the children of the brain.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.’ – Ben Carson

‘Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. She has those wicked eyes – it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.’ – Joshua Jackson

‘Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.’ – Albert Einstein

‘A man’s brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women’s brain does.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.’ – Brian Eno

‘If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you’re not dreaming about it, something’s probably wrong.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you’re on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn’t be doing this, but you’re on a mission.’ – Elyn Saks

‘I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.’ – Adam Driver

‘All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that’s bad.’ – Michel Gondry

‘If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.’ – Bennet Omalu

‘Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.’ – John O’Keefe

‘I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.’ – Keith Richards

‘A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.’ – Dante Gabriel Rossetti

‘We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain’s allocation of resources.’ – Daphne Bavelier

‘You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.’ – Matt Lauer

‘Gut health is everything, it’s the second brain, where many of our hormones are produced.’ – Tess Daly

‘The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.’ – Ken Venturi

‘Success is not something I’ve wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that’s true, big-time success. If not, it’s much ado about nothing.’ – Matt Damon

‘Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don’t see somebody’s brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.’ – James Caan

‘Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.’ – Jane Goodall

‘For me, my body image struggle started very young. All that I heard from my mother, my aunts, and my mom’s friends was, ‘I gotta lose five pounds.’ At 5 years old, I learned a size 2 is not thin enough. It was, ‘Don’t eat carbs! Don’t eat sugar! Drink Diet Coke! You always diet!’ So that was engrained in my brain at a very early age.’ – Whitney Cummings

‘Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.’ – Matthieu Ricard

‘It must be born in mind that one does not see directly – as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain – where the electrodes are attacking.’ – Walter Rudolf Hess

‘Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.’ – Danny Meyer

‘Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don’t care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that’s my opinion but because I think it’s actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It’s that simple.’ – Ryan Tedder

‘Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.’ – Douglas Adams

‘There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well – that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.’ – Monty Don

‘If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.’ – Ivo Andric

‘If you have special coaches for goalkeeping, physical education, strikers, fitness, you should also have an expert for the brain.’ – Ralf Rangnick

‘Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But most psychotherapy doesn’t address the social causation of mental illness either.’ – Mark Fisher

‘Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.’ – Kara Swisher

‘When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that’s where I kept ‘The Orange Blossom Special.” – Johnny Gimble

‘Oh, he’s magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you’d never expect.’ – Butch Trucks

‘Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We’ll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: ‘Did I have a thought today?’ You’ll have to go to your ‘Thought’ app!’ – Lewis Black

‘When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it’s the way their brain is programmed, and it’s not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.’ – Philip Schultz

‘My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.’ – Jeff Ross

‘Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.’ – John Dramani Mahama

‘The human brain is built to compare; it’s Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.’ – Helen Fisher

‘All of imagination – everything that we think, we feel, we sense – comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.’ – Jay S. Walker

‘Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘In my brain, it’s simple: On the podcast, we’re really never serious about anything, ever.’ – Joe Budden

‘The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘I live with romance in my brain. I’m a true-blue Cancerian like that.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘Forties are good! I’m thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It’s a wonderful decade where you’re in control of yourself but the women are still interested.’ – James Marsters

‘Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.’ – Tony Buzan

‘It’s awesome to get home and just… relax your brain.’ – Domantas Sabonis

‘Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can’t. The brain doesn’t process negatives.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘In virtual reality, we’re placing the viewer inside a moment or a story… made possible by sound and visual technology that’s actually tricking the brain into believing it’s somewhere else.’ – Chris Milk

‘Every day, I have new ideas. It makes my brain tired, so I spend time taking care of company quality, finding new artists, and taking care of the young artists.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.’ – Howard Gardner

‘The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.’ – Eric Kandel

”The Secret’ is sorta teaching me how to think positively, try to take the negative thoughts out of of my brain.’ – John Collins

‘I’m always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘Let’s detox our cluttered academic brain. That’s what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It’s being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.’ – Juan Felipe Herrera

‘Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.’ – Jocko Willink

‘When people think about ‘thinking,’ they often think ‘academia;’ they think ‘threat.’ They think ‘coldness.’ I want to reverse all those images and say, ‘No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It’s really good at it if you let it.” – John Piper

‘Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.’ – Frei Otto

‘What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.’ – Tom Wujec

‘I think I have more of a director’s brain than an actor’s brain, in a way.’ – Helen Hunt

‘One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.’ – Daniel Goldstein

‘There’s no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym – it’s a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.’ – Danica McKellar

‘From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to ‘Sheen’s Korner’ … You’re either in my corner, or you’re with the trolls.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘I don’t think the goal is, ‘How big a star did you ever become?’ I think the goal is, ‘Were you able to express yourself?’ And if you’re able to say yes, in any field, you’ve won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit – if it’s solving that part of your brain saying, ‘I need to do this,’ you’ve won.’ – Albert Brooks

‘I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.’ – Ian Somerhalder

‘There’s a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they’re mismatched. That’s all it is. It’s not complicated, it’s not a neurosis. It’s a mix-up. It’s a birth defect, like a cleft palate.’ – Chaz Bono

‘In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.’ – Mark Hyman

‘Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘You’re not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.’ – John Madden

‘Even two of humanity’s most intimate possessions – a sense of self and a body image – are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain’s mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second’s notice.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.’ – Henry Rollins

‘If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.’ – Lyall Watson

”Game of Thrones’ is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you’ve been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.’ – Justin Hartley

‘The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.’ – Bill Viola

‘The brain drain from Africa has been reversed.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by.’ – Jacob Collier

‘I’m a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.’ – Temple Grandin

‘There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.’ – Chellie Pingree

‘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.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘My philosophy is really based on humility. I don’t think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.’ – Thomas R. Insel

‘If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.’ – Shakuntala Devi

‘I went to see ‘The Piano’ with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn’t focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.’ – Cherry Jones

‘British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn’t want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.’ – Steven Berkoff

‘I’m usually sick after a fight. But then the brain swelling goes down, and I’m just hungry as hell.’ – Bob Sapp

‘Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘My mom put me in this extracurricular dance class when I was a kid. And so I think that just started the creative part of my brain. That’s what activated that.’ – Ncuti Gatwa

‘It’s a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘I won’t compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.’ – Sophia Bush

‘As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.’ – Eric Whitacre

‘I’m on the Sensa diet. It’s a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh’s clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you’re full through smellology.’ – Patti Stanger

‘Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it’s not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It’s just a matter of psychology.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It’s a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don’t know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.’ – Steve Gleason

‘When I’m putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it’s helping me, my brain, you know, because it’s always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It’s great. My brain is very happy about it.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.’ – Piet Mondrian

‘To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first ‘I love you’s’ – chronicled in my 2012 memoir ‘Brain on Fire’ – occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.’ – Susannah Cahalan

‘One doesn’t need a particular height or body to be a villain in movies. He needs the brain and the look.’ – Ali

‘I don’t want technology to take me so far that I don’t have to use my brain anymore. It’s like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It’s always got to be tactile, still organic.’ – Andrew Bird

‘You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.’ – Shawn Achor

‘Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words – usually lousy ones – for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.’ – Amy Waldman

‘I’m tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I’m done.’ – Todd McFarlane

‘I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish – named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.’ – Chris Pratt

‘No Christian with half a brain would say ‘we support religious freedom.” – John MacArthur

‘Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.’ – Michael Gurian

‘In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they’re not enough.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘I’m lucky that my best strength as a wrestler has always been my brain.’ – Kenny Omega

‘I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.’ – Sebastian Seung

‘I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.’ – Billie Joe Armstrong

‘I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant’s idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it’s an evolved machine that we carry with us.’ – Bernard Beckett

‘From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.’ – Timothy Leary

‘We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you’re getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.’ – Matthew Walker

‘Gardening does so much for your brain. You’re learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I’ve always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.’ – Marc Gasol

‘I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you’re trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That’s one theory of pleasure.’ – Marvin Minsky

‘My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.’ – Jack Henry Abbott

‘Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.’ – Keith Henson

‘I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.’ – Sean Connery

‘No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.’ – Alan Turing

‘A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage’s brain. It’s kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It’s not a part of the brain that’s necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.’ – Sam Kean

‘We want Google to be the third half of your brain.’ – Sergey Brin

‘The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn’t stop until you get up to deliver a speech.’ – George Jessel

‘An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.’ – Tony Hoare

‘The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.’ – Elizabeth Thornton

‘The first six years of a child’s life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it’s the brain wiring that I’m more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that’s been proposed.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The press don’t like to say nice things because nice is boring. It’s much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we’re responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.’ – Michael Bay

‘Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette’s Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.’ – Tim Howard

‘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

‘I used to be really shy, and I think something happened in my brain where I was like, ‘All right, I don’t care anymore. I’m just going to be myself.’ So I went to school wearing eyeliner and eye shadow, and they called my mom, telling her it was a distraction. My mom fought the school, and I got to wear makeup every day.’ – Jeffree Star

‘I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI’s, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.’ – Will Ferrell

‘It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.’ – Andrew Weil

‘Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.’ – Louis B. Rosenberg

‘The act of riding a bicycle isn’t causing brain trauma. Yeah, you could fall, but that’s if something goes wrong. Everything could go right in football, and it’s still dangerous.’ – Chris Borland

‘The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

”Cue for Treason,’ by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.’ – Miriam Toews

‘Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.’ – Maryanne Wolf

‘When you are young, you can do anything, everything, and nothing at the same time. You don’t have that kind of judgment; you just eat… like teenagers that need to feed. After a while, you know exactly what you are looking for, that sense of analysis comes to you when you start to use your brain.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.’ – Jeff Hawkins

‘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

‘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

‘I don’t really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.’ – Jim Thome

‘If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘I relate everything to amateur wrestling, including the way I watch basketball and the way I watch football. My brain thinks as an amateur wrestler. That’s who I am.’ – Jake Hager

‘I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.’ – Becky Hammon

‘I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.’ – Conor McGregor

‘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.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘There’s basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I’m using a bunch of lies that I’ve made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I’m using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.’ – Isabel Allende

‘TV rots your brain.’ – Milly Shapiro

‘I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don’t have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.’ – Rohit Sharma

‘I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.’ – Marisa Tomei

‘I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.’ – John Grant

‘I want to reach the people. This music is the people’s music. It’s music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.’ – Stephen Marley

‘I’m definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it’s just what sinks into a person’s brain.’ – Jhonen Vasquez

‘You can play with a brain that is injured – you can’t play with an injured knee. That’s the problem.’ – Steve Young

‘Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child’s brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.’ – Steve Carell

‘The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can’t be easily defined in zeros and ones.’ – Naveen Jain

‘It is imperfection – not perfection – that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.’ – Rita Levi-Montalcini

‘Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There’s something deeply mysterious about that. And if you’re not struck by the mystery, I think you haven’t thought about it.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.’ – Gerald Edelman

‘In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it’s really all about the brain.’ – Chris Cornell

‘I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it’s a working prototype; sometimes it’s an idea on a napkin. I don’t do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups – it’s the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.’ – Kevin Rose

‘Writing/reading is like visiting another person’s brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have a coffee, talk about the weather or sports, and then move on.’ – Mark Manson

‘The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we’re coming from and what we’re going to.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.’ – Joe Maddon

‘Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don’t have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.’ – Claude Vorilhon

‘We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.’ – Judy Blume

‘One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.’ – Scott Adams

‘Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.’ – Paul Allen

‘I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.’ – Elizabeth Moon

‘Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It’s simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.’ – Tom DeLonge

‘Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical ‘experience machine’ that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.’ – Martin Seligman

‘It is fair to say that I am generally very bad at keeping in touch – with everyone. When I read a text, my brain seems to think that I have replied to it, and so I am often genuinely surprised when people tell me I haven’t.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.’ – Helen Fisher

‘I’ve never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.’ – Jello Biafra

‘I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That’s why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker than a piece of broccoli.’ – Jose Andres

‘Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.’ – Maya Angelou

‘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

‘I’m lucky: I’ve got great photogenic eyes. You’re up and running if you’ve got that and one brain cell to attach it to.’ – Art Malik

‘If little else, the brain is an educational toy.’ – Tom Robbins

‘America is immature as a nation, and part of the reason why ‘Hung’ is a hit show is because it deals with that immature side of the male brain where we are kind of comparing ourselves to the rest of the world.’ – Thomas Jane

‘I’m interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.’ – Bill Maris

‘I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I’m playing games. It’s more fun.’ – John Romero

‘Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I’ve ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That’s his most attractive muscle.’ – Asia Argento

‘A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don’t understand. A single ‘neuron’ in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.’ – Andrew Ng

‘A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.’ – Grandma Moses

‘Subconsciously – I didn’t know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain – I fought like I didn’t deserve to live.’ – Jake LaMotta

‘I’m enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?’ – Francis Collins

‘I’m taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I’m taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind’s brain.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.’ – Baiju Bhatt

‘When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term ‘brain tumour’, I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.’ – Leander Paes

‘As a player, you get to the stage where you realise that you are not 25 anymore – and can’t play the way you used to. The intelligent players adapt – and Steven Gerrard has the ability to do that. He is an excellent passer of the ball, possesses an intelligent football brain, and has great vision.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you’re like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you’re back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.’ – Simone Giertz

‘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.’ – Colin Farrell

‘We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.’ – John O’Keefe

‘When the brain gets lost, it doesn’t stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that’s when things open up. That’s exciting.’ – Simon McBurney

‘In the entire history of the human species, every tool we’ve invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.’ – David Gerrold

‘If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I’ve got the brain of a teenager anyway.’ – Angus Young

‘I have an internal protectiveness where it’s like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I’m like, It could happen and I’m okay, I’m prepared.’ – Lena Headey

‘Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.’ – Johnny Depp

‘Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It’s not a blank slate, but it isn’t written in stone, either.’ – Alison Gopnik

”Time in a Tree’ is a song about when you find yourself in a busy state of mind, which I often find myself in. Sometimes it can feel like you can’t physically get out of it, or you can’t mentally or physically bring yourself out of that… it’s like having traffic in your brain.’ – Jacob Anderson

‘My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I’m just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.’ – Dustin Lynch

‘The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.’ – Brian Eno

‘Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.’ – Christopher deCharms

‘Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘People don’t realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you’re dumb, and you know you’re not. it’s just how your brain works.’ – Kaya Scodelario

‘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

‘The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.’ – Yolanda Hadid

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

‘I don’t think I will stop learning about football. There are certain parts we will never understand, like what happens in the brain of a player or makes a team fear.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that’s a fairy tale – definitely.’ – Fritz Lang

‘In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.’ – Aloe Blacc

‘I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.’ – Suriya

‘I’ve heard that’s common with trauma – your mind replaces memories with blank spaces. Like a Ctrl-Alt-Delete for anything that hurts too much. I have so many black holes in my brain. Memories are sucked in and never come back out.’ – Breanna Stewart

‘I mean I think that when you’ve got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?’ – Richard Dawkins

‘In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

‘You’re trying to sleep off a debt that you’ve lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn’t it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn’t. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can’t accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time.’ – Matthew Walker

‘A ContraPoints video is never going to be framed as ‘I’m so offended by this idea.’ It’s not, ‘I’m so intimidated by my opponent’s big, masculine brain.’ It’s more, ‘I’m bored of you, and also, you’re a dum-dum.” – ContraPoints

‘A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.’ – Eminem

‘It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.’ – Stirling Moss

‘I’m raised to actually think, to use my brain.’ – Jason Momoa

‘Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain’s cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening – not to say healthy – old age.’ – Sherwin B. Nuland

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

‘If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.’ – Susan Campbell Bartoletti

‘The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and – if you buy the right phone – will work for years without replacement. Oh, and far as I can tell, a home phone won’t give you brain cancer. In a perfect world, the hard line should have become a platform for building out an entire app ecosystem for the home. And yet… it didn’t.’ – John Battelle

‘I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day – the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills – have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.’ – Jojo Moyes

‘Gays don’t have a lot of testosterone. I’m talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome… they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.’ – Patti Stanger

‘Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function.’ – Thomas R. Insel

‘Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that’s not true. There’s no programming of the brain. There’s no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.’ – Leon Kass

‘In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they’re not.’ – Oliver Sacks

‘I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as well, but they were definitely the best for just switching my brain off, not having to deal with reality.’ – Emma Healey

‘Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.’ – Floyd Skloot

‘My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my ‘bowel releasing’ schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure.’ – Susannah Cahalan

‘Of course I’m schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.’ – Marilu Henner

‘How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?’ – Jose Padilha

‘Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘Men and women are different. I don’t think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.’ – Cyndi Lauper

‘A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That’s why I think I’ll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?’ – Gotye

‘When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It’s interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish’s can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.’ – Norman Schwarzkopf

‘There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.’ – Ben Carson

‘I used to paint pictures – what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, ‘Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,’ because that’s where their brain would go.’ – Michael Che

‘Listen, I am such a nerd. I’m not one of those girls that goes, ‘Ha, ha, hee, hee. I’m a nerd.’ No, no, no – my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch – I’m a Trekkie.’ – Mila Kunis

‘A lot of people, when they say ‘forgive and forget,’ they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don’t haunt you or handicap you or kill you.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.’ – Tony Buzan

‘You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.’ – Adena Friedman

‘Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.’ – Seth MacFarlane

‘If you are going to describe the history of animation, you’d look at the early Disney work, then ‘Bugs Bunny,’ ‘Road Runner’ and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle,’ you’d see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.’ – Judith Durham

‘The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that’s a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic – a wonderful word which literally means ‘ache for home’ – which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.’ – Lyall Watson

‘It’s the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It’s never been done before.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘You can’t process me with a normal brain.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.’ – Daphne Guinness

‘The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain’s reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.’ – Andrew Weil

‘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

‘In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That’s right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and whatever it is I have.’ – Conan O’Brien

‘Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don’t overeat. I don’t develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don’t work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties – not using your brain, not using your body.’ – Mahathir Mohamad

‘I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you give me those restrictions and I start to use my brain creatively to work around those, that’s when things get interesting.’ – Kenny Omega

‘One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain’s processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.’ – Eric Kandel

‘Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.’ – Dick Cavett

‘My brain is just so busy. I’m inattentive; I’m a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.’ – Hannah Gadsby

‘If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle – and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.’ – Michael Merzenich

‘I had to find the interconnection of my brain together with my physiology.’ – Wim Hof

‘My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer’s brain into what it is: a flying carpet.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.’ – Joe Mays

‘I obviously wouldn’t say on nationwide TV that I thought America was racist, sexist, homophobic and violent if they asked me why I left. I would just say America wasn’t a culture I felt comfortable in. But anybody with a brain would understand what I’m trying to say.’ – Terence Trent D’Arby

‘I hate the Internet. It’s full of rubbish. I’m on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.’ – Aja Naomi King

‘Wasting brain power ruminating about things you can’t control drains mental energy quickly. The more you think about problems you can’t solve, the less energy you’ll have leftover for more productive endeavors.’ – Amy Morin

‘I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.’ – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

‘I’m the biggest hypochondriac you’ve ever seen in your life. When I get real stressed out, every little ache and pain I have is something major. If I’ve got a headache, it’s a brain tumor; if I’ve got a chest pain, it’s a heart attack.’ – Lorrie Morgan

‘As a physician, I’m somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?’ – Bennet Omalu

‘My brain cells are dying in their trillions.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.’ – John Eccles

‘When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.’ – Missy Elliott

‘A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn’t working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn’t want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I’ve had.’ – Darren Boyd

‘As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.’ – Paul Allen

‘QLA is not about filling your brain with information – it is starting a fire within your heart and soul!’ – Dan Pena

‘Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.’ – David Suzuki

‘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

‘Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, ‘Do not sing one song from Grease.’ That’s all I was telling my brain at all times: ‘Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don’t do it.” – Caroline Rhea

‘I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.’ – Arthur Rimbaud

‘That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It’s like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don’t get in that daydreaming mode typically by texting and Facebooking. You get in it by disengaging.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘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

‘Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.’ – Dalai Lama

‘When the brain is silent, the executive function, which is this part of the brain that makes decisions, can work much better. So when you get quiet, you make better decisions. You’re also more rested – you’re not as reactive.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘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.’ – Samuel Butler

‘To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.’ – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

‘I’m a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don’t get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you’re writing about, rather than into the world you’re in.’ – Caleb Carr

‘The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.’ – Tabetha S. Boyajian

‘I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better – and when that’s closely related to how the brain works.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

‘The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it – language, art, science – seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to ‘replay’ evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn’t.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.’ – David Perlmutter

‘When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.’ – Josh Groban

‘Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn’t want to throw it that hard.’ – Zack Greinke

‘Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.’ – Eddie Van Halen

‘I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn’t help anything. We can only go forward.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn’t distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.’ – Norman Tebbit

‘Life is a balance, and as much effort as I put into my fitness journey, I needed to put into my own mind journey, my brain is just as important, and loving myself is just as important as loving my body.’ – Jenna Johnson

‘I’ve always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. ‘When My Head Explodes’ is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.’ – Ty Segall

‘The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time.’ – Robert Kubica

‘I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).’ – Ada Lovelace

‘When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.’ – Martha Beck

‘There’s an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.’ – Maryanne Wolf

‘You have two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It’s a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.’ – Bill Lee

‘If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.’ – Mariah Carey

‘Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.’ – Antonio Damasio

‘Mental communication without verbalization… all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.’ – Tina Louise

‘I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.’ – Mitski

‘You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room – a room that’s dim. Just read a book – no screens, no phones – and, only when you’re sleepy, return to the bed.’ – Matthew Walker

‘F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.’ – Lando Norris

‘I’m very anti-antidepressants. It’s not the chemicals of my brain that’s a problem; it’s reality. I don’t think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.’ – Amanda Knox

‘When you hit a groove, it’s not you; it’s the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They’re the ones that are really happy.’ – Tommy Chong

‘The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.’ – George Steiner

‘I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that’s the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.’ – Win Butler

‘There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.’ – Doug Stanhope

‘It’s a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you’re in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn’t have.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘For three months I was brain damaged. I couldn’t think like before and I was so scared. I didn’t know if I could go on living like that. But it helped that the doctors told me I’d get better and your brain is amazing. It can recover.’ – Michelle Payne

‘I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.’ – Krysten Ritter

‘Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.’ – Timothy Leary

‘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

‘Yes, genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important – after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc., etc. But the regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it’s the environment that regulates genes.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.’ – Annie Besant

‘There are several patients – there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson’s disease.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.’ – William Congreve

‘Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘First of all, you want to make sure you find a doctor that is a board-certified specialist in whatever that field is – whatever it is – whether it’s plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, ocular plastic surgery, brain surgery, whatever it is. And two, if they do a procedure, you want to make sure they do a lot of it.’ – Paul Nassif

‘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.’ – Anna Friel

‘Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you’re not even able to judge well whether you’re working well or not.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘I’m not a man trapped in a woman’s body. I’m a brain trapped in a human body.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘The real point of me isn’t that I’m good looking. It’s that I’m clever. I’ve got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.’ – Niall Ferguson

‘I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician’s brain.’ – Joshua Roman

‘You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your ‘love map,’ an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.’ – Helen Fisher

‘The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.’ – Shawn Achor

‘Any doctor will tell you a great treatment for depression is exercise, physical exertion, that it really ups the dopamine in your brain, so that’s what a show is. I play a show and that’s a high for me; I can ride that.’ – Laura Jane Grace

‘I’m just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you’re not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor’s world, it can eat you alive.’ – Nikki Reed

‘Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy.’ – Sherry Turkle

‘Skin care is massively important to me. My mom instilled that into my brain from a pretty young age.’ – Madelyn Cline

‘You can’t be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad – there’s something in the middle of them, and that’s really what you are and that’s going to make you the best dad – not when you try to be one or the other.’ – Gerard Way

‘When you start, you have no brain; you are a kid. It’s fine. But then I started to be scared. I was scared of judgment – not as a dancer, but as a person – and I was really uncomfortable with people. And it lasted for a very long time.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘What I’ve learned is that unless it’s an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you’re repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.’ – Jane Goodall

‘My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.’ – Amy Tan

‘There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.’ – Jake Gyllenhaal

‘It’s good to make your brain work more than your body.’ – Conor McGregor

‘Your brain is triggered to produce.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘There’s no such thing as downtime for your brain.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘I had the idea to use electrical potential collected from the surface of the heat that our brain generates, it’s like authentication using the power of thoughts. Imagine if you could use a thought instead of a password.’ – Alexandra Elbakyan

‘Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.’ – Bennet Omalu

‘Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?’ – Anne Robinson

‘Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.’ – Helen Fisher

‘The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.’ – Maryanne Wolf

‘My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.’ – Dave Barry

‘His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.’ – Joshua Logan

‘My hand does the work and I don’t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It’s like a dam in the brain that bursts.’ – Edna O’Brien

‘I don’t want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.’ – Shania Twain

‘I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn’t want to have half my brain sucked out.’ – Max Walker

‘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.’ – Will Cuppy

‘He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.’ – Alexandre Dumas

‘I think we can win it if my brain holds out.’ – John McGraw

‘Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else’s brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.’ – Mickey Mantle

‘I’ve been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can’t waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.’ – Mark McGwire

‘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

‘In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I’d sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.’ – Helena Christensen

‘Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy’s body.’ – J. F. C. Fuller

‘Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.’ – Scott Reed

‘To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer – but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.’ – Scott Reed

‘Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.’ – Jules Renard

‘Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.’ – David Sarnoff

‘The individual – man as a man, man as a brain, if you like – interests me more than what he makes because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.’ – Marcel Duchamp

‘Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!’ – Alexander Pope

‘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

‘But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.’ – Clare Boothe Luce

‘I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.’ – Michael Keaton

‘The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he’s described by Doyle as a man without a heart – all brain… and that’s very difficult to play, or even indicate.’ – Jeremy Brett

‘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

‘If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?’ – Warren Ellis

‘Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.’ – John Mayer

‘My fingers are not as fast as my brain – which isn’t that much to type home about anyway.’ – Frank Lane

‘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.’ – Arthur Symons

‘All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with.’ – Graham Norton

‘When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought ‘I am going to do to prove them wrong’. In the end that wouldn’t be coming from my heart and doing what was right.’ – Craig Stevens

‘Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.’ – Andrew Taylor Still

‘The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.’ – Edgar Rice Burroughs

‘Let’s not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.’ – Malcolm McDowell

‘I’m a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack – my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.’ – Lisa Marie Presley

‘I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it’s ‘War and Peace’ everyday.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?’ – Steven Pinker

‘But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don’t depend on information coming in from the senses.’ – Steven Pinker

‘I think it’s so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.’ – Beverley Mitchell

‘The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I’m going to regret it.’ – Scott Caan

‘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

‘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

‘All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.’ – Sam Mendes

‘I just prefer instrumental. I don’t need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear – I don’t need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.’ – Lydia Lunch

‘My brain doesn’t have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.’ – John Wozniak

‘I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.’ – Art Spiegelman

‘My scratching I don’t really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.’ – Eric San

‘There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.’ – L. Sprague de Camp

‘We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.’ – Hans Berger

‘All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.’ – Jack Nance

‘The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.’ – Karen Duffy

‘Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.’ – Mark McKinney

‘When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.’ – David Baltimore

‘And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.’ – Algernon Blackwood

‘The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.’ – Michael Shermer

‘I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.’ – William Standish Knowles

‘The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.’ – Utada Hikaru

‘As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.’ – Deborah Bull

‘I have an old brain but a terrific memory.’ – Al Lewis

‘I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it’s true.’ – Diana Wynne Jones

‘I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don’t know what possessed me to do that, but I did.’ – Brian Setzer

‘We’re not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.’ – Douglas Trumbull

‘The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.’ – Edward Thorndike

‘Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.’ – Marilu Henner

‘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

‘I think it’s important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we’re confident in the safety of the food supply.’ – Ann Veneman

‘Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.’ – George Combe

‘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.’ – Mary Lynn Rajskub

‘For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.’ – Estelle Parsons

‘Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.’ – Celine Dion

‘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.’ – Ted Danson

‘You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don’t.’ – Branford Marsalis

‘That’s like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn’t completely right, because he isn’t in the norm.’ – Alice Cooper

‘Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop. It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.’ – Aimee Mann

‘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

‘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

‘Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.’ – Steven Bochco

‘If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘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.’ – Kate Clinton

‘I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant – that don’t come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on – and I can’t do that, and I’m not in that bracket at all.’ – Richard Attenborough

‘With a theatre audience there’s always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I’m acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready – your voice, physicality, brain.’ – Greta Scacchi

‘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

‘Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.’ – Ernestine Rose

‘When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.’ – Julia Ward Howe

‘Basic human contact – the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words – is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.’ – Martha Beck

‘I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.’ – Galen Rowell

‘But there’s a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I’m away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy’s lashing away.’ – Brian Lumley

‘I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.’ – Lou Gramm

‘For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.’ – Lou Gramm

‘An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I’ll ask major corporate audiences: Why don’t you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?’ – Dee Hock

‘I think hopefully we’ve got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.’ – Will Champion

‘There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don’t deserve that kind of grace. I don’t deserve that break.’ – Willie Aames

‘I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn’t know what to say.’ – Andy Partridge

‘Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn’t want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.’ – Andy Partridge

‘I don’t think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.’ – Layne Staley

‘You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.’ – Emerson Fittipaldi

‘The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that’s out there in the world, that I can’t seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.’ – Eric Bogosian

‘I soon became convinced… that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.’ – Fritz Zwicky

‘There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.’ – Gertrude Jekyll

‘I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.’ – Paul Simon

‘Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘I love doing crosswords, it’s so important to keep the brain going.’ – Magnus Magnusson

‘Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it’s about real life. I feel like I’m using a part of my brain that’s been dormant until now.’ – Alison Bechdel

‘I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.’ – Gerald Scarfe

‘It strikes me that these days, clubs don’t even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don’t have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.’ – Robbie Fowler

‘Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.’ – Eartha Kitt

‘It is now possible to quantify people’s levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.’ – Polly Toynbee

‘As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries – stroke and trauma – affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.’ – Allyson Schwartz

‘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

‘Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.’ – Keith Henson

‘Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.’ – Keith Henson

‘The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.’ – Keith Henson

‘It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.’ – Bob Edwards

‘I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn’t like school very much so I had to come up with something else.’ – Lexa Doig

‘My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.’ – Vanessa Carlton

‘Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.’ – Walter Rudolf Hess

‘Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.’ – Tony Visconti

‘You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art.’ – Maya Lin

‘If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I’d be willing to. But I’d do brain surgery the same way. I’m always up for something new.’ – Carter Burwell

‘From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What’s lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘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

‘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

‘I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn’t work like that.’ – Kip Winger

‘Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.’ – Rosa DeLauro

‘Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.’ – Childe Hassam

‘I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.’ – Mose Allison

‘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.’ – Bram Stoker

‘If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it’s in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘That’s when we decided to stop in ’66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn’t. I joined in ’62, and we’d finished touring in ’66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other… and create any fantasy that came out of anybody’s brain.’ – Ringo Starr

‘I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don’t pick, and the reason I don’t redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.’ – Sergio Aragones

‘I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.’ – Sergio Aragones

‘When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It’s limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.’ – Larry Wall

‘When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘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

‘The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.’ – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

‘When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can’t help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.’ – Ruud van Nistelrooy

‘Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they’re doing it differently. They don’t do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.’ – Tom T. Hall

‘Use your brain, not your endurance.’ – Peter Thomson

‘He’s a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.’ – Gary McCord

‘I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.’ – Ben Hecht

‘Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It’s going to be brain power.’ – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

‘Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.’ – Erica Jong

‘He’s thinking more with his heart than with his brain.’ – David Smith

‘If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.’ – William Howard Taft

‘In outward show so splendid and so vain; ’tis but a gilded block without a brain.’ – Phaedrus

‘This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Everyone’s been so quick to say that I’m really thick or I haven’t got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.’ – David Beckham

‘No man’s brain is so dull, and no man’s eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.’ – Donald G. Mitchell

‘When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.’ – Bill Bryson

‘If you can be funny, it means you’re intelligent. Your brain is working fast.’ – Amber Valletta

‘I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.’ – Sean Lennon

‘I’m not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.’ – Jessica Biel

‘For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.’ – Joshua Jackson

‘It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!’ – Anna Garlin Spencer

‘Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.’ – Elizabeth Bowen

‘If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what’s on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.’ – Richie Benaud

‘John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I’m working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘Where does personality end and brain damage begin?’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That’s not what life’s about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you’re overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?’ – Cate Blanchett

‘Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.’ – Jeff Hawkins

‘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

‘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

‘When I cook, my brain stops completely.’ – Dino De Laurentiis

‘Duh! So, we’re asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?’ – Charlie Sheen

‘It’s not an act. I love it. It’s totally original. People go, ‘What’s going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don’t know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we’re falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.’ – Jude Law

‘After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I’ve always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I get so nervous on stage I can’t help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it’s pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I’m going to be able to deliver.’ – Adele

‘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

‘Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I’m doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.’ – Lev Yilmaz

‘Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It’s a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.’ – Jaron Lanier

‘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 new capabilities to the brain.’ – Jaron Lanier

‘What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.’ – Tyler Perry

‘Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it’s not brain surgery. It’s art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.’ – Lake Bell

‘I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the ‘Endless Summer’ album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don’t have to think about it; it’s something that you feel.’ – John Stamos

‘Much as I loved doing ‘The Big Breakfast,’ it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.’ – Denise Van Outen

‘I understand what’s it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.’ – Don Cheadle

‘I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that’s my main career, it really is.’ – Danica McKellar

‘My message is: You don’t have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.’ – Danica McKellar

‘I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.’ – Evelyn Glennie

‘When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am – the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It’s almost like I leave my body and get to watch.’ – Michelle Branch

‘When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they’re at your fingertips. If they’re all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.’ – Ken Jennings

‘Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don’t have to remember everyone’s number anymore, but that really wasn’t a core part of my brain.’ – Ken Jennings

‘When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.’ – Danica McKellar

‘It’s only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.’ – Felicity Huffman

‘There’s a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, ‘Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?’, and they’re finding out that, no, it’s not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we’re much more of an organic creature in that way.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘I don’t have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they’re practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘The thinnest I’ve ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn’t work when I’m that thin, so I can’t do my job. That’s why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.’ – Carey Mulligan

‘Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: ‘Do it. Come on. I have to do it.” – Haile Gebrselassie

‘My brain is just always going and going and going.’ – Nicholas Brendon

‘For all of my life I’d been extremely healthy. I’d never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.’ – Sanya Richards-Ross

‘I have a good brain on me, but I’ve never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.’ – Sienna Miller

‘I never walk into the studio and say, I’m going to write a song called… ‘X’ or called ‘Slow Me Down.’ I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of… I call it brain vomit. It’s kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I’m unabashedly just writing it down.’ – Emmy Rossum

‘Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.’ – Mark Hyman

‘It’s quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, ‘Oh, that’s really clever.” – Richard D. James

‘I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.’ – Russell Brand

‘I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.’ – Jordana Brewster

‘It’s actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you’re studying something completely different, and I loved it.’ – Dido Armstrong

‘A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.’ – Norah Jones

‘Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That’s your best friend and your worst enemy – your own brain.’ – Fred Durst

‘That’s an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you’re not thinking about anything, you’re not thinking about your lines or what you’re supposed to do – your body, your brain knows, so there’s freedom. There’s not fear, there’s not nerves.’ – Eric McCormack

‘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.’ – Darrell Hammond

‘I never did think I had brain damage.’ – Leon Spinks

‘Antidepressants are very good, but it’s a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you’re in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.’ – Adam Ant

‘Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.’ – Andy Richter

‘All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.’ – Richard Powers

‘I love the percussion. It’s a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It’s your whole body doing it, you’re doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You’re this whole motion machine.’ – Shalom Harlow

‘A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I’m one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let’s just say I’m the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.’ – Bret Michaels

‘Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it’s jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner – but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.’ – Robert Irvine

‘Even when I don’t think I’m writing, I’m writing. There’s some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it’s collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that’s when they come out.’ – Jeff Tweedy

‘I was never really sure what I wanted to do – I’m in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.’ – Jerry Doyle

‘There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I’m going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.’ – Jim McMahon

‘Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia – hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.’ – David Eagleman

‘For the last three years, I’ve been working on ‘Bromst,’ and that’s all that encompassed my brain. And now that it’s out, it will change the way that I think musically.’ – Dan Deacon

‘I don’t really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric… I’m not operating on somebody’s brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it’s all funny.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘When you’re clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I’ll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.’ – Terry Bradshaw

‘It’s obvious that my brain isn’t what it used to be.’ – Terry Bradshaw

‘If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you’re good.’ – Vanessa Paradis

‘I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.’ – Temple Grandin

‘Autism is a neurological disorder. It’s not caused by bad parenting. It’s caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain’s computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.’ – Temple Grandin

‘I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can’t wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn’t send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I’m more comfortable in clothes than ever.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I don’t know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan’s Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.’ – Tom Hooper

‘From a scientist’s perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.’ – Rene Redzepi

‘The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.’ – Adam Ant

‘I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.’ – Lena Dunham

‘Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘My father was all brain and little heart.’ – Stephen Fry

‘I’m interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I’m sort of a performance rat.’ – Dane Cook

‘I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I don’t always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that’s not serious, I don’t want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God’s sake.’ – Dorothea Benton Frank

‘If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read ‘The Midnight Disease’ by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer’s block, and the creative brain. I know what’s wrong with me!’ – Dorothea Benton Frank

‘The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.’ – Olivia Williams

‘When I’m doing theatre, I feel like my life’s on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.’ – Shirley Henderson

‘My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I’m constantly reading and people always think, ‘Ah, we didn’t know that about you’, but that’s part of my charm.’ – Pamela Anderson

‘Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that’s going to be the guy who I’m going to have kids with. That’s in my crazy female brain. So that’s why I’m like, ‘I can’t commit.” – Amanda Seyfried

‘I beat a brain tumor.’ – Arlen Specter

‘To be honest, I wasn’t a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it’s generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.’ – Olivia Thirlby

‘Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn’t yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what’s around you. You go crazy that way.’ – Fiona Apple

‘You think you’re looking at things all the time, but you’re not looking at things, you’re looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?’ – Fiona Apple

‘I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I’m forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.’ – James Wolcott

‘I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don’t use it, you lose it.’ – Joan Collins

‘We’re as clever as we think we are, but we’ll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We’re at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time – there’s no reason why we can’t do it in other endeavors.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we’ve not only survived, we’ve used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.’ – David Suzuki

‘There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy… They’re controlled by different parts of the brain.’ – Daniel Goleman

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

‘Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.’ – E. L. Doctorow

‘I’m so interested in the brain. I read true crime.’ – Katie Price

‘Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.’ – Eben Alexander

‘I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.’ – Eben Alexander

‘Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you’ll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.’ – Angus T. Jones

‘I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours – which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn’t be the same at any other time of day.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘It’s helpful for me to get ideas – the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It’s nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘Sometimes I write what I can’t paint, and I paint what I can’t write. I use a different part of the brain.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that’s what they do in ‘Harry Potter’: The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they’ve been near the Dementors!’ – Jane Siberry

‘Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you’ve got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.’ – Jarvis Cocker

‘If we’re given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it’s amazing how good we are at it.’ – Jon Brion

‘I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.’ – David Chalmers

‘I’ve only half-admitted I’m a professional. I know I am, I’ve paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I’m acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.’ – Emily Mortimer

‘When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.’ – Christopher Nolan

‘My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn’t make a difference to me.’ – Ed Koch

‘I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out… Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.’ – Donovan Bailey

‘When someone is looking down, they’re saying no. When they’re looking up, they’re looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they’re looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they’re feeling sorry – they don’t want to answer.’ – Duane Chapman

‘Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings’ decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.’ – Evan Davis

‘Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one’s brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.’ – Evan Davis

‘You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It’s like that.’ – Gary Larson

‘There’s something happening in the world that didn’t happen before. We are acting like one big brain.’ – Antonio Banderas

‘My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I’m conscious. It’s constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I’m in my house and I’m hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.’ – Dominic Monaghan

‘All the time that I’m acting with an animated character, I’m looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There’s no real environment, just this electric green that’s blaring into your brain.’ – Mia Wasikowska

‘I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.’ – Nicholas Hoult

‘My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don’t get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I’m just a screwball all day long.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘I would like to pick Rihanna’s brain. I love her style and what she does.’ – Joan Smalls

‘It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.’ – Michael Gove

‘You have to get it in your brain that you don’t belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.’ – Anne Parillaud

‘I’m totally an anxious mess all the time. There’s a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it’s just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I’m not doing good enough.’ – Aubrey Plaza

‘It’s a good feeling to come away from a day’s work feeling like you’ve achieved something. Tired brain is good.’ – Dominic Cooper

‘If your brain’s not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.’ – Frank Bruno

‘Your work isn’t just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that’s going on under the lines. It doesn’t matter whether you’re speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character’s mind would work.’ – Sarah Wayne Callies

‘Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it’s simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, ‘I have achieved,’ but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, ‘Look, Ma, I did it!” – Brendon Burchard

‘Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.’ – Yuri Milner

‘I wasn’t actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn’t work very well, in terms of mathematics.’ – Brit Marling

‘I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.’ – Santigold

‘What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We’re all creative all of the time, we can’t help but be creative.’ – Jonah Lehrer

‘Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody’s brain, I’m thinking, ‘This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they’ve ever experienced is right in there.” – Ben Carson

‘Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.’ – Ben Carson

‘You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.’ – Ben Carson

‘You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.’ – Ben Carson

‘Brains don’t really smell, but what’s amazing about the brain is that it’s almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.’ – Ellen Pompeo

‘I read a lot of nonfiction – especially books about the brain.’ – Ellen Pompeo

‘I do think that I’m a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren’t consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You’re working on them, even if you don’t know you’re working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.’ – Rian Johnson

‘Kids don’t eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it’s really annoying, because you’re like, ‘Come on, it’s bedtime!’ But try it: You’ll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.’ – Alison Sweeney

‘I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.’ – William Mapother

‘My insurance provider probably wouldn’t allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd’s of London, you know what I’m saying?’ – CeeLo Green

‘Our imagination just needs space. It’s all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.’ – Glen Hansard

‘I’m a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I’ll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.’ – Steve Berry

‘It’s not really possible to open ‘The Casual Vacancy’ without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there.’ – Lev Grossman

‘When I wake up, I’ll go through emails on my iPhone – the junk email. At that point, my brain isn’t usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.’ – Sam Trammell

‘You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.’ – Cristina Saralegui

‘I’m always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that’s gonna be useful.’ – Big Boi

‘I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.’ – Henning Mankell

‘In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate… But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn’t see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.’ – Jo Nesbo

‘When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.’ – Tea Obreht

‘My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you’re still learning language. It’s using the same part of the brain.’ – Andrew Bird

‘Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it’s one thing. I don’t have a lot of time to think about dating.’ – Chris Pine

‘Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.’ – Meghan O’Rourke

‘For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.’ – Richard Hammond

‘I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.’ – Richard Hammond

‘I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn’t deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.’ – Richard Hammond

‘I had a husband who, I’m convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn’t treat me as if I had a brain – I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.’ – Britt Ekland

‘People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book. I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.’ – Martin Amis

‘I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly’s brain.’ – Mayer Hawthorne

‘There’s some things that you learn as you’re shooting, and as you’re editing that are key, because when you start you don’t have the brain that can finish it. You don’t really know what it is, and that’s the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you’re dreaming of having.’ – Mike Mills

‘If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit – if it’s solving that part of your brain saying, ‘I need to do this,’ you’ve won.’ – Albert Brooks

‘My brain doesn’t like to be quiet.’ – Dan Fogler

‘I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.’ – John Hodgman

‘Economics is not brain surgery.’ – Ben Carson

‘If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.’ – Beth Ditto

‘The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That’s probably not a very postmodern thing to say.’ – Kate Atkinson

‘It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle – the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.’ – Peter Mullan

‘The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.’ – David Deutsch

‘Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.’ – Carole King

‘I had a Tourette’s period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn’t get out of my brain.’ – Richard Ford

‘As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn’t be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.’ – Judy Woodruff

‘I definitely have family on the brain.’ – Rachel Bilson

‘I’m a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don’t remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.’ – Steve Cropper

‘Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it’s not historical, it’s personal. If it’s not personal, it’s cultural. But you can’t. You can’t save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.’ – Sloane Crosley

‘By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I’m always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain – or else you’ll never keep at them.’ – Lisa Edelstein

‘Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it’s not right for everybody. It’s taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.’ – Lisa Edelstein

‘My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘The reason I’m drawn to it is – both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track – it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.’ – Dax Shepard

‘With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren’t real. There’s no gravity, the light’s not quite real, the shadows aren’t quite real.’ – Nick Park

‘The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.’ – Graham Swift

‘You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people’s brains. It’s a less detailed copy, it’s coarse-grained.’ – Douglas Hofstadter

‘I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.’ – Thaksin Shinawatra

‘The main thing I’ve learned is that we all have to learn to work with – and appreciate – the brain we’ve been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.’ – Laini Taylor

‘A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people’s minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.’ – Criss Angel

‘Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal… coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.’ – Bill Berry

‘Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain’s working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.’ – Denise Mina

‘The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it’s not a completely flush fit – there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can’t be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘It hadn’t really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was – late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.’ – David Weber

‘Healthy foods are great, but it’s important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you’re moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!’ – Jenna Ushkowitz

‘When it comes down to it, I’m thinking about football all the time. When I’m on the golf course, I’m thinking about it. It’s never out of your brain.’ – Al Michaels

‘Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.’ – Brad Meltzer

‘We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.’ – Robert Winston

‘While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.’ – Robert Winston

‘The first thing I became interested in in terms of ‘Brain Storm’ was neuroscience, and that is like saying you’re interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.’ – Richard Dooling

‘Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?’ – Naveen Jain

‘My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it’s expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain’s ability to learn.’ – Naveen Jain

‘The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to ‘improving the brain’ that a student brings to the classroom.’ – Naveen Jain

‘Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.’ – Naveen Jain

‘Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put ‘into shape’ for optimal learning.’ – Naveen Jain

‘That’s a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.’ – Charles Kelley

‘I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.’ – Alan Furst

‘With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don’t think I have any problems with forgetfulness – that’s brain exercise enough for me.’ – Kevin Whately

‘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 brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort – good food or junk food – and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.’ – Lorrie Moore

‘If I have 1% of my dad’s brain, I’ll be happy. He’s so quick.’ – Tamara Ecclestone

‘I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they’re like, ‘I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?” – Allison Pearson

‘Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn’t run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.’ – Allison Pearson

‘I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.’ – Alice Sebold

‘I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there’s a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you’re talking in bed. When you’re starting off with a narrator, it’s interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?’ – Anne Enright

‘What’s important now are the characteristics of the brain’s right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘It’s a writer’s or director’s role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it’s best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don’t have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.’ – Monica Ali

‘I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.’ – Daren Kagasoff

‘The thing we don’t want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you’ve got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.’ – Nolan Bushnell

‘When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I’m always trying to picture things.’ – John Lydon

‘I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that’s normally asleep.’ – John Lydon

‘The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.’ – Atul Gawande

‘I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.’ – Bryce Courtenay

‘I can’t cook. I don’t have the right brain for it, somehow. I can’t walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.’ – Sophie Kinsella

‘Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.’ – Scott Westerfeld

‘Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.’ – Sam Harris

‘Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.’ – Gary Shteyngart

‘Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don’t focus on work or solving problems constantly.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There’s good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.’ – Stacy Schiff

‘I really don’t mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don’t need the approval of people. I don’t need people to think I’m intelligent. And I’m not that intelligent.’ – Alice Eve

‘You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it’s imprinted indelibly forever and there’s an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.’ – Dale Archer

‘When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.’ – Meg Rosoff

‘When you’re writing, you’re only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you’re involving all four limbs, and you’re hearing stuff and you’re converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching – it’s pretty cool. It’s a really a nice contrast to writing.’ – Michael Azerrad

‘Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls’ brain.’ – Michael Gurian

‘The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head – it has the same shape as the human brain.’ – Michel Houellebecq

‘It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It’s a survival mechanism.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I had to write about realistic circumstances. That’s the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.’ – Richard Matheson

‘The ‘army camp’ that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.’ – Tariq Ramadan

‘By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don’t experience 100 percent peace.’ – Henepola Gunaratana

‘The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.’ – Henepola Gunaratana

‘I always say this to people: ‘If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can’t I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone’s body?’ I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.’ – Rico Love

‘There is physical evidence of the body’s response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.’ – Evelyn Lauder

‘As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.’ – Annie Besant

‘It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.’ – George Matthew Adams

‘I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.’ – Ellen G. White

‘The brain abhors discrepancies.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West – but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘If you’re a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: ‘How can anyone NOT be interested in it?’ Everything you call ‘human nature’ and consciousness arises from it.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘I’m a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.’ – Dustin Lynch

‘I think we’re all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.’ – Alexis Denisof

‘I don’t really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I’ve been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.’ – Mae Whitman

‘Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.’ – Steve Carell

‘That’s the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain – they cannot be otherwise.’ – Zadie Smith

‘All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.’ – Zadie Smith

‘In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.’ – A. S. Byatt

‘I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can’t do it.’ – A. S. Byatt

‘I’m quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I’m a failed scientist, and because I’m interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.’ – A. S. Byatt

‘The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.’ – Dean Devlin

‘What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.’ – Stephen LaBerge

‘Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.’ – Lyall Watson

‘When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.’ – Ann Hood

‘We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother’s winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.’ – Ann Hood

‘You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show – that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep ‘reptilian brain.” – Nick Denton