Basal Ganglia Quotes

#1. Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

Sergio De La Pava

#2. Habits are one of the ways the brain learns complex behaviors. Neuroscientists believe habits give us the ability to focus our attention on other things by storing automatic responses in the basal ganglia, an area of the brain associated with involuntary actions.

Nir Eyal

#3. The basal ganglia, in other words, stored habits even while the rest of the brain went to sleep.

Charles Duhigg

#4. Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life. People whose basal ganglia are damaged by injury or disease often become mentally paralyzed. They have trouble performing basic activities, such as opening a door or deciding what to eat.

Charles Duhigg

#5. I do comedy for real people.

Tracy Morgan

#6. The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

William Graham Sumner

#7. The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Giacomo Leopardi

#8. Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet

Joe Raposo

#9. Memory is a fickle thing, a flickering light in a darkroom of possibilities.

Kent Nerburn