Brain Quotes

I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

~ John C. Reilly

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

~ Tony Diterlizzi

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'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

~ Jane Mcgonigal

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

~ J.k. Rowling

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

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

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

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

I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells.

~ Dr. Seuss

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

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

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

~ Edward P. Jones

There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there.

~ Michael Leunig

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

~ Missy Elliott

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

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

~ Uzo Aduba

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

~ William S. Burroughs

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

The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.

~ Sebastian Thrun

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 constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

~ Nicholas A. Christakis

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

~ Joe Frazier

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

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

~ Albert Einstein

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

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

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

~ Helen Fisher

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

~ Keith Henson

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

~ Jason Mraz

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

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

~ Dalai Lama

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

~ Nancy Gibbs

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

~ Nora Ephron

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

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

~ Diane Ackerman

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

~ Miguel Nicolelis