Top 72 Brain Not Working Quotes

#1. When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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#2. I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.

Blake Mills

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#3. We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

Jill Lepore

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#4. He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#5. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.

James Purdy

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#6. The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

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#7. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever ... lost.

J.K. Rowling

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#8. I like working, and my brain sort of keeps going whether I like it or not.

Bryan Fuller

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#9. Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

Jaggi Vasudev

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#10. The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

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#11. If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

Amber Valletta

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#12. I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Don DeLillo

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#13. In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about
which things numbered in the dozens right now
or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.

C.E. Murphy

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#14. Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells ... any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.

James E. Webb

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#15. Do you know how writers often say the characters take over ... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.

Wes Anderson

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#16. Yeah, he'd been trained to be good with details, but once his dick started working, his brain generally shifted to standby.

Pamela Clare

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#17. Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.

David C. Holley

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#18. For most of my life, I've been working under the paradigm that my behavior should, ideally, have a logical basis. But if you live biblically, this is not true. I have to adjust my brain to this. You

A. J. Jacobs

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#19. 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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#20. I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.

Irvine Welsh

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#21. Our sense of time's passage is rooted not in one region of the brain but results from the combined working of memory, attention, emotion, and other cerebral activities that can't be singularly localized, Time in the brain, like time outside it, is a collective activity.

Alan Burdick

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#22. I'll tell you what the human soul is, Mary,' he whispered, his eyes closed. 'Animals don't have one. It's the part of you that knows when your brain isn't working right. I always knew, Mary. There wasn't anything I could do about it, but I always knew.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#23. It is with regular exercise that "the mind" can keep the brain in good shape, active and in working condition! And if you are young and healthy in our brains, then the whole body is healthy and young.

Alex Right

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#24. He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?"
"Hurting.

Derek Landy

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#25. The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

Nicholas G. Carr

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#26. Brain is the most notorious organ in our body. It starts working after you have failed miserably by the heart.

Saru Singhal

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#27. Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

Margaret Meagher

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#28. When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.

John Assaraf

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#29. From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

Joe Eszterhas

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#30. We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.

Conor Oberst

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#31. It occurred to me that I had a fine brain in beautiful working order and that I might as well use it.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#32. You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles ... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

Gary Coleman

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#33. Exercise is not an instant cure, but you need to get your brain working again, and if you move your body your brain won't have any choice.

John J. Ratey

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#34. For long stretches of time it felt like we were crawling around each other's brain.

Lily King

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#35. I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

Jane McGonigal

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#36. For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Dan Deacon

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#37. Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and biology out of their discussions.

Siri Hustvedt

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#38. For a writer, a break from working is nonexistent; while you fingers may stop typing, your brain never stops writing, developing, changing, and perfecting the story.

Nicole Gulla

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#39. I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

Nikki Reed

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#40. Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.

Tony Visconti

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#41. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Christian Bale

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#42. If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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#43. All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

Adora Svitak

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#44. A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Ned Vizzini

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#45. Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

Sarah Wayne Callies

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#46. Early next morning, Harry woke with a plan fully formed in his mind, as though his sleeping brain had been working on it all night.

J.K. Rowling

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#47. Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

David Eagleman

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#48. I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.

Robin Ince

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#49. I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

Lewis Thomas

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#50. Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!

Colin Baker

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#51. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Simon McBurney

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#52. With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.

Virginia Woolf

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#53. Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

Crispian Mills

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#54. I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

Ariel Garten

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#55. 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.

David Brooks

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#56. I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Katherine Anne Porter

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#57. almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the automatic transmission in your brain begins to start working properly again.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

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#58. [T]he power of willful activity to shape the brain remains the working principle not only of early brain development, but also of brain function as an ongoing, living process.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

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#59. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

Dennis McKenna

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#60. As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.

Eric Lange

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#61. Salander assessed the situation and saw that it was anything but under control. Her brain was working at high speed. Click, click, click.

Stieg Larsson

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#62. The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

Charles Duhigg

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#63. I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

Kevin Rose

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#64. When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Marie Brennan

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#65. I thought of myself as an itinerant brain
the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute.

Margaret Atwood

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#66. 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

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#67. When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working ... And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.

Stephen Covey

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#68. I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.'

Katie Nolan

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#69. A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

Joseph Campbell

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#70. I know how to deal with jet lag, and I know just how much rest I need and when I need to take naps. When you walk on stage, you need your brain working at its highest and most fully-functioning, so it's not always easy, but I sort of figure it out.

Joshua Bell

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#71. My brain is already scrambled enough.""Cracked," I said, not thinking.
"Yeah." Moses scowled.
"Well, it's working for you." I turned and looked at my walls. "Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn't cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

Amy Harmon

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#72. Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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