Top 28 Left Hemisphere Quotes
#1. As Gazzaniga put it, these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reasons, even when there is none - which leads it continually to make mistakes.
David Eagleman
#2. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.
Carl Sagan
#3. This is the left hemisphere confabulating. It does this for all of us, every waking moment. It edits our conscious experiences, makes them comprehensible and palatable. It's the brain's spin-doctor.
Paul Broks
#4. The left hemisphere is more sophisticated and specialized, a very late outgrowth of the primate, and especially the hominid, brain. On the other hand, it is the right hemisphere which controls the crucial powers of recognizing reality which every living creature must have in order to survive.
Oliver Sacks
#5. It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Steven Pinker
#7. The scientific study of the relationship between brain and mind began in 1861, when Broca, in France, found that specific difficulties in the expressive use of speech, aphasia, consistently followed damage to a particular portion of the left hemisphere of the brain.
Oliver Sacks
#8. patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost 'abstract' and 'propositional' thought - and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia).
Oliver Sacks
#9. For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!
Jill Bolte Taylor
#10. The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.
Michio Kaku
#11. When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.
Joyce Meyer
#12. I shall say another word for the most select ears: what I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm. I
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.
Bob Thomason
#14. Right now I'm working on the second book in the series, which will be called, The Night Stalker.
Robert Bryndza
#15. The second round of toast popped up behind David. He said, I don't know what destiny feels like, but if this is it, I don't like it. I want to un-destiny this place from my life.
Robert Liparulo
#16. This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
Michael Behe
#17. Peace be with you," he says softly, kissing me on the cheek, and I tell him the same. Then, we shake hands with everyone around us. My eyes fill with tears of joy as I look around at the smiling people, all sharing
Kristina Ludwig
#18. If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.
Gisele Bundchen
#19. I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.
Sara Sheridan
#20. When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#21. In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.
Stephen King
#22. A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
Jonathan Galassi
#24. The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
Ryan White
#25. Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
Marianne Williamson
#26. Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
Dolores LaChapelle
#27. The White Hand did not fry all the brain. He fried some
from the right hemisphere and some from the left. The
remaining brain, The White Hand wrapped in tin foil,
carefully. Tomorrow is, after all, another day, and food should be kept
in storage so it won't go bad.
Siberian Hellhole By Michael Mulvihill
#28. Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Ihab Hassan
