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Brain Quotes

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn’t work on ageing, I’d want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets – that’s so powerful.

– Cynthia Kenyon

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

– Edward de Bono

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

Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

– Paul Stamets

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

– Estelle Parsons

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Dalai Lama

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

– Eric Topol

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

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

– Max Walker

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.

– Philippe Petit

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

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

– Chris Kilham

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

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

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

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

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

I used to be able to think. My brain’s circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

– Floyd Skloot

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I’d hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I’d turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?

– Nicholas Kristof

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

It’s not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

– Edward Boyden

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

I’m that person who says, ‘No matter what the problem is, there’s a solution.’ That’s the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, ‘Well, that’s not possible. It can’t happen,’ I say, ‘Yes it is. I’m going to sit here and show you that it can.’

– Miranda Kerr

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

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