Quotes About Brain Injury

#1. In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

Maryam D'Abo

#2. THE SECOND SPEAKER, ANITA SALTMARCHE, focused specifically on studies of light therapy used for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and depression.

Norman Doidge

#3. Maybe when I'd wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating? I didn't believe that.

A.B. Shepherd

#4. Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day
at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.

Karen Allen

#5. John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

Bradley Whitford

#6. The first time I was told that I had a brain injury, I immediately thought to myself, "I'm not crazy.

Amy Rankin

#7. Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is your brain. You can feel the brain injury happening. It's an instant headache.

Jonathan Gottschall

#8. I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

Richard Hammond

#9. All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

Charlie Cox

#10. As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

Allyson Schwartz

#11. My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

Rodney Barnes

#12. I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

Maggie Wheeler

#13. Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

Henry Rollins

#14. Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military.

Ken Wahl

#15. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

Judy Woodruff

#16. The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.

James Henry Breasted

#17. In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS.

Peter Radetsky

#18. You'll be fine. You didn't even break anything. You messed up your knuckles and your brain freaked out a little and basically you just fell asleep for three days. I don't call that an injury," he says. "I call that a god- damn vacation.

Tahereh Mafi

#19. The neurosurgeon removed the right half of my skull. The swelling from the injury was so severe, it was causing enormous pressure on my brain, which if left uncontrolled would have killed me.

Amy Rankin

#20. Mom was crying while she cooked, salting domesticity with anguish, the recipe of her life.

Justina Chen

#21. Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot.

Jerry Gladstone

#22. Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Alastair Reynolds

#23. The swelling from the injury was so severe, it was causing enormous pressure on my brain, which if left uncontrolled would have killed me. This surgery lasted about six hours

Amy Rankin

#24. The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.

Guy Kawasaki

#25. I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#26. Having a strong urge is like having a child throw a temper tantrum inside you, screaming "Hurt yourself!" But if you repeatedly ignore the urge's request and don't harm yourself, your brain will learn that urges don't work, just as a child learns that throwing a tantrum won't work.

Kim L. Gratz

#27. The brain heals the past like an injury ...

Arthur Miller

#28. Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#29. Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

John Katzenbach

#30. A harsh thing for any young man to hear, but this is part of every youth's education in the world, learning the risks are never fully revealed until you commit.

Ben Fountain

#31. Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

George Will

#32. No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Muhammad Ali

#33. Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Phil Crosby

#34. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Siri Hustvedt

#35. The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football ... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

Bob Fitzsimmons

#36. Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

Dan Chaon

#37. Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

Naomi Wolf

#38. That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.

Christopher Paolini