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. For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

Jonathan Lethem

#3. Basle, Zurich, Baden, Paris - the flickering of steel rails over the arterial systems of Europe's body: steel ganglia meeting and dividing away across mountains and valleys.

Lawrence Durrell

#4. Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.

Anne Rice

#5. 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

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

Charles Duhigg

#7. The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Boris Sidis

#8. 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

#9. To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

Bryan Cranston

#10. Eat your alcohol, or you won't get nonconsensual sex!

Brenda Song

#11. One of the worst cases is that of ASSATA SHAKUR, who spent over twenty months in solitary confinement in two separate men's prisons subject to conditions totally unbefitting any prisoner.

Assata Shakur

#12. You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

Russell Simmons

#13. Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

Billie Jean King