Neural Mechanisms Quotes

#1. The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.

Dylan Evans

#2. What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#3. If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

Dave Bautista

#5. The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.

Tom Tryon

#6. There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

Philip Pearlstein

#8. The process is not just the sum of its parts.

W. Edwards Deming

#9. Deep down in the emotional memory centers of your brain, imagined experiences build neural structures through mechanisms similar to those that actual, lived experiences use.

Rick Hanson

#10. Remember. You don't experience life; you only experience your feelings. When you choose to feel differently, you choose to live differently. You can change your life one feeling at a time.

Bryant McGill

#11. I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

J. Robbins

#12. It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only man who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.

Nalini Singh

#13. They really thought what other people sing in songs.

Boris Pasternak

#14. I thought your degree was in computronics. It didn't please Judd that there was something he hadn't known about her. An emotional reaction. The sweat rolling down his spine felt like ice this time.

Nalini Singh

#15. Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

Hector Berlioz

#16. A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

Al Yankovic

#17. While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

Peter Diamandis