Quotes About Turning Your Brain Off

#1. Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

Harvey MacKay

#2. Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Allan Bloom

#3. A lot of my past is gone from my mind.

Juliana Hatfield

#4. It's exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It's magical!

Elaine Grey

#5. What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more.

Emil Cioran

#6. I'm good at picking friends.

Hoda Kotb

#7. Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

Owen Feltham

#8. I don't like the idea of being a human being, existing, talking to my friends, and having these real human conversations, and then getting to work on a sitcom and turning that part of my brain off.

Jerrod Carmichael

#9. Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos beamed back by all the other spunky li'l NASA robots, thus confirming suspicions that the universe has a LOT of rocks in it.

Dave Barry

#10. But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

Adolf Hitler

#11. There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

Chellie Pingree

#12. It's fine if you aren't into rubbing acorns or turning in circles before you create, but the brain is nothing if not responsive to familiar stimuli. Creating

Todd Brison

#13. In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

John Densmore

#14. I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

Cara Delevingne

#15. I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.

Arnold Palmer

#16. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#17. C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

Stephen King

#18. No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

Sam Kean

#19. All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

Ellen Hopkins

#20. And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.

Robin Jones Gunn

#21. I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

J. B. Smoove

#22. What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.

James Lankford

#23. I am not showing off. I am just being expressive!

Nelson Jack

#24. People derive the most satisfaction from doing the best they can.

Isadore Sharp

#25. They says truth is hidden behind their masks, but I believe Truth comes out when they are masked!

Twinkle Varshney

#26. The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It's about emotional privacy, having a self.

Jill Soloway

#27. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

M.L. Stedman

#28. Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with normal people perfectly unaware of the disease turning Perry's body inside out. Fucking normal people.

Scott Sigler

#29. This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

Dexter Palmer

#30. When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.

Richard Dawkins