Quotes About Our Brain

#1. I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Amy Hardie

#2. Mental communication without verbalization ... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

Tina Louise

#3. I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Thomas Schlamme

#4. Work that only comes from the head isn't any good ... You need to find a way to bring your body into your work ... If we start going through the motions, if we strum a guitar, or shuffle sticky notes around a conference table, or start kneading clay, the motion kickstarts our brain into thinking.

Austin Kleon

#5. Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.

Richard Restak

#6. It could be simply an accident of fate that our brains are too weak to understand themselves. Think of the lowly giraffe, for instance, whose brain is obviously far below the level required for self-understanding - yet it is remarkably similar to our brain.

Ray Kurzweil

#7. Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#8. Our brain needs comfort. When you irritate it, you cannot think.

Zoran

#9. A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

Chris Prentiss

#10. Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.

Gary L. Thomas

#11. It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Hayao Miyazaki

#12. reality" is merely our brain's relative understanding of the world based on where and how we are observing it.

Shawn Achor

#13. We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.

Michio Kaku

#14. The MindScreen is the most highly-developed function of our brain.

Ilchi Lee

#15. When we are able to use our brain functions integratively, we can use our brain and the power of consciousness for a purpose that is big enough to benefit all.

Ilchi Lee

#16. There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.

Taylor Swift

#17. The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.

Malcolm Gladwell

#18. In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

David Gerrold

#19. As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#20. Because our brain's resources are limited, we are left with a choice: to use those finite resources to see only pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning.

Shawn Achor

#21. Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

Edvard Moser

#22. Our brain is the factory of the emotions

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#23. Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Norman Doidge

#24. We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Chris Prentiss

#25. We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

Michael Specter

#26. We all shuffle our own deck in life ... The deck is our brain, the cards are our thoughts, the results we get will determine if we are giving ourselves a fair deal. Do you have an authentic dealer?

Michael Levy

#27. Love is blind, they say
but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?

Susan Fletcher

#28. Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

Molly Kelly

#29. We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

Shunryu Suzuki

#30. Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

James Altucher

#31. When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

James H. Austin

#32. Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

Richard Davidson

#33. Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.

Sonia Johnson

#34. Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That's way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#35. The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

Alan Moore

#36. The lesson of these new insights is that our brain is entirely like any of our physical muscles: Use it or lose it.

Ray Kurzweil

#37. Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Douglas Adams

#38. Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.

John B. S. Haldane

#39. I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.

Margherita Hack

#40. The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.

Candace Pert

#41. Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

Cathy Guisewite

#42. Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

#43. All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Neal Stephenson

#44. Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Jamais Cascio

#45. The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.

Herbert Benson

#46. I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.

David Levithan

#47. It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.

Philippa Perry

#48. We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Stephen Jay Gould

#49. As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital.

Ray Kurzweil

#50. I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

Galen Rowell

#51. Our brain is not cut out for nonlinearities. People think that if, say, two variables are causally linked, then a steady input in one variable should always yield a result in the other one. Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#52. I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?

David Gordon

#53. In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

Anupam Kher

#54. One of the key practical lessons of modern neuroscience is that the power to direct our attention has within it the power to shape our brain's firing patterns, as well as the power to shape the architecture of the brain itself.

Daniel J. Siegel

#55. What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Stephen LaBerge

#56. Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

Shawn Achor

#57. WHAT IS INTEGRATION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Most of us don't think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of

Daniel J. Siegel

#58. We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

John M. Gottman

#59. We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.

Marion Woodman

#60. If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand it after all.

Jostein Gaarder

#61. The chemicals that are running our body and our brain are the same chemicals that are involved in emotion. And that says to me that ... wed better pay more attention to emotions with respect to health.

Candace Pert

#62. Shame is real pain. The importance of social acceptance and connection is reinforced by our brain chemistry, and the pain that results from social rejection and disconnection is real pain.

Brene Brown

#63. Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.

Debasish Mridha

#64. We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

Laura Dave

#65. Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#66. Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Dalai Lama

#67. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel De Montaigne

#68. Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

#69. you sugar cravings is seeking other sources of pleasure. It's not the sweet that our brain urges us to give it - it's satisfaction.

Dylan McGregor

#70. Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.

Charles Duhigg

#71. We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

Amy Hardie

#72. The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

Andrew Weil

#73. Whenever we use our brain, we fire certain neuronal connections, and the more these connections get used, the stronger they become.

Olivia Fox Cabane

#74. Identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells.

Terry Bisson

#75. Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

E. O. Wilson

#76. So then I went on the Internet to find out why that is and apparently we yawn when other people yawn because we see them getting lots of delicious air and our brain is all, FUCK, THAT LOOKS DELICIOUS. GRAB SOME QUICK BEFORE THAT BITCH TAKES IT ALL.

Jenny Lawson

#77. In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Mark Hyman

#78. To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

Daniel Gilbert

#79. There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information.

Malcolm Gladwell

#80. It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.

Jerzy Vetulani

#81. Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

Daniel Goleman

#82. Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

Kirk Douglas

#83. If we spend little time in REM sleep one night, our brain will compensate by prolonging that stage of sleep the next night. It doesn't take a huge leap to assume that the brain considers this time important.

David K. Randall

#84. Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

Bill Crawford

#85. Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.

Upasana Banerjee

#86. Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That's why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker than a piece of broccoli.

Jose Andres

#87. American writer
1803-1882
Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Diane Ackerman

#88. Goals don't start in our brain; they start in our heart.

Robert Anthony

#89. The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

Clayton Christensen

#90. We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Allan Pease

#91. The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain's own ability to remember things.

Douglas Rushkoff

#92. The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible.

Candace Pert

#93. It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain,but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain.-RVM

R.v.m.

#94. Our perception of reality has less to do with what's happening out there, and more to do with what's happening inside our brain. Your

David Eagleman

#95. We eat junk because it's cheap and it lights up the pleasure centers of our brain. And we do drugs because it's an effective way to feel good or escape something.

Linda Tirado

#96. I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

George Lucas

#97. During dreaming, we're tuned inward, we experience vivid visual imagery, our conventional logic system is turned down, and social norms are loosened, all of which can lead to making more creative associations than we make when we're awake and our brain is censoring the illogical," she says.

Andrea Rock

#98. Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

Richard Dawkins

#99. Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#100. Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

Douglas Rushkoff