Sharon Begley Quotes

#1. The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

Sharon Begley

#2. The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

H.L. Mencken

#3. The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking ...

Sharon Begley

#4. Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

Sharon Begley

#5. A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

Sharon Begley

#6. Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Sharon Begley

#7. I'd like to. Problem is, I'm not stupid."
"You act stupid."
"Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there's a difference between acting stupid and being stupid."
"It's a fine line, but someone has to draw it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#8. You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.

Richelle Mead

#9. It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

Robert Hughes

#10. It was sprinting. The corpse was sprinting.

Austin Quinn

#11. With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Sharon Begley

#12. Because I found the strength to do the things I believe in, and the will to stop doing the things I don't believe in.
So I have discovered what it means, to be at peace.

Pleasefindthis

#13. The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Dickens

#14. Home almost, at
least where words cut your lip & I spoke
you together & then back apart.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

#15. Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

Sharon Begley

#16. For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.

Sharon Begley

#17. I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Moby

#18. Looking for art, the theme gets lost.
Finding the theme is finding art.

Berenice Abbott

#19. God sinks into dust before man.

Max Stirner

#20. The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

Sharon Begley

#21. Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

Josh McDowell

#22. We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

Sharon Begley

#23. The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Sharon Begley