Top 53 Quotes About Using Your Brain
#1. In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.
Ernest Cline
#2. You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.
Oliver Hardy
#3. There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.
Shaun White
#4. Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.
Jeremy Grantham
#5. I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.
Jason Peter
#6. It's like, take my body, fine, I wasn't really using it anyway. I've got this enormous butt on ostrich legs, the hair of a "before" picture, and weird milky brown eyes like a Frappuccino. But not my brain. My true connection to the world.
Lara Avery
#7. It's my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I'm not using my brain, I'm not doing the things my coach is telling me.
Dinara Safina
#8. It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
Daniel Dennett
#9. It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.
Glenn Branca
#10. The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.
Jack LaLanne
#11. This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
Edwin Land
#12. I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.
Ben Mezrich
#13. I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
Douglas Coupland
#14. You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
Adam DeVine
#15. The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.
Kwabena Boahen
#16. If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.
Jim Rowe
#17. Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.
Aditi Shankardass
#18. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
Libba Bray
#19. I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.
Amy Hardie
#20. Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine.
Michael Moss
#21. What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.
Scott Westerfeld
#22. When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
Dan Gilroy
#24. The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.
William Fitzsimmons
#25. I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.
Brie Larson
#26. The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power
Kenichi Ohmae
#27. Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
Diana Wynne Jones
#28. The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
James Altucher
#29. If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.
Chris Hardwick
#30. There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
Max Lerner
#31. People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.
Barbara Hulanicki
#32. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.
H.G.Wells
#33. If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.
Philippa Perry
#34. Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.
Peter Lynch
#35. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#36. You could drop Tony Stark naked in the middle of the desert and he'd fly out in a jet made of sand and cactus needles. It's not his *stuff* that gives him power. It's his *brain*. Try using yours. You'll be amazed the difference it makes.
Charles Soule
#37. Not to mention, we're using you for bait. (Syn)
Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian)
What? I wasn't supposed to tell her that? (Syn)
I'm bait? (Kiara)
No, you're not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. For me, Malak was always the 'brawn' to Revan's 'brain' - he was renowned for his combat abilities, and I always felt that he was even better than Revan with a lightsaber. I also felt that he wasn't as strong at using the Force in other ways as Revan was.
Drew Karpyshyn
#39. Go out there! Sweep a pavement, plant a tree, feed a stray dog. Do something, anything; rather than just using your fingers to tap three keys and destroy 600 people's brain cells in one shot. 11
Twinkle Khanna
#40. There was no evidence that the intelligence of the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had.
Arthur C. Clarke
#41. If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
Dean Falk
#42. My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
Andrew Bird
#43. Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.
Alison Bechdel
#44. The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain's almond. They kept the people spellbound
Amira Aly
#45. The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#46. If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.
John Goode
#47. There ye go again," my archdruid said. "Using your colon instead of yer brain. Ye believe yer thinkin' because yer workin' hard, but all yer doin' is squeezin' out shit.
Kevin Hearne
#48. I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.
Tracey Emin
#49. All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.
Mark Batterson
#50. We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
Timothy Leary
#51. Have you ever wondered what you could do if you weren't limited to using only one eighth of your brain?
Kelly Carrero
#52. No," Gideon says. "No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.
Paula Stokes
#53. I was using," I tell her. "And God was my drug dealer."
She doesn't get it.
"Tripping on my own brain chemicals. The dope I was doing was already inside.
Neal Shusterman
