Brain Quotes - Page 128

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

The brain runs its show incognito.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go away. And it flies out of some region of his brain and it goes out into the ether. And usually it's on the realm of media.

If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.

We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.

In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?

I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on people when they're meditating, they indeed are entering a different portion of the brain which is activated.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and left hemispheres, but the fact is that the two hemispheres of the brain do specialize in certain functions.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had insured the restlessness of all minds by enabling no single one to envisage all the qualities of the creation. Since no one by himself could aspire to a serene knowledge of the whole truth, all men had been drawn into an active, exploratory and cooperative attitude.