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Brain Quotes

If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected – sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain.

– Michael Specter

I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you’re physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just deals with the situation at hand. You get to a point where you’re exhausted at the end of the day, but I quite like that.

– Emilia Clarke

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

– Deepak Chopra

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

– Garry Shandling

I sat there in awe that some guy overseas, trying to protect our interests, was using a silly comedy as a survival tool. My brain had an explosion. I was really moved by that.

– David Denman

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

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

– Douglas Coupland

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

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

– Douglas Coupland

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

The biggest hits – be they Coca-Cola or Doritos – owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don’t have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.

– Michael Moss

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

– Gilbert Gottfried

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

– Dino De Laurentiis

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I’ll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

– Evangeline Lilly

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you’re either born into it, or you’ve got an amazing brain, which those are rare – and I don’t have one.

– David Koechner

For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.

– Francis Collins

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

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

– Ezra Koenig

I want to be inside Nic Pizzolatto’s brain.

– Michelle Monaghan

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

Cholesterol – which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat – doesn’t just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer’s victims.

– Michael Greger

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you’re acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can’t be on your mind.

– Penelope Cruz

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

– Douglas Coupland

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don’t think the rest of me would be too hot.

– Mamie Van Doren

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

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

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

– Evelyn Glennie

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

My brain is just always going and going and going.

– Nicholas Brendon

The truth is, I don’t sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

– Nate Powell

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