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Brain Quotes

I feel like an old boxer. The brain’s gone, but I can still move around.

– Kris Kristofferson

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

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

When something comes to my brain, I don’t ignore it. You never know what it’s going to turn into.

– Kacey Musgraves

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents’ abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies’ movements in more sophisticated ways.

– Justin Rosenstein

Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare, and LinkedIn, people already add information to and extract insight from these systems much the same way our hands and brain exchange signals.

– Justin Rosenstein

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

– Malcolm McDowell

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

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

I’ve always been interested in the paranormal, but ‘Gray Matter’ is a more subtle, mature expression of that – looking at the powers of the brain and more delicate evidence of the extraordinary.

– Jane Jensen

Nobody programmes the brain, yet it keeps learning. India shouldn’t miss the emerging age of brain-inspired computing.

– Kris Gopalakrishnan

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

– John Gurdon

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

– Leonard Mlodinow

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

– Layne Staley

I never realized it until I watched an interview, but sometimes my brain stutters between thoughts, and for some reason it comes out as an ‘ummmm.’ I’m hoping it’s because I’m so smart, and there’s just too much information to process, but it’s more than likely just because it’s a small processor.

– Justin Baldoni

For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I’ve already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn’t thinking about it.

– Kate McKinnon

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child’s development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child’s brain at the elementary levels.

– Johnathon Schaech

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

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

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

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy’s body.

– J. F. C. Fuller

I would like to pick Rihanna’s brain. I love her style and what she does.

– Joan Smalls

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that’s attacked by Alzheimer’s disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, ‘What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?’

– John O’Keefe

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

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

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

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

– Ken Jennings

Omalu first found the tau ‘threads’ in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal ‘Neurosurgery.’

– Jeanne Marie Laskas

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

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