Stimulating The Brain Quotes

#1. Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

Nick Begich

#2. Bonkers is female . . . Did she know that?

Stjepan Sejic

#3. All the stars are a riot of flowers.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

Margaret Meagher

#5. Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

Lyall Watson

#6. Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

Ilchi Lee

#7. British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. The same study found that smiling is as stimulating as receiving up to 16,000 pounds Sterling in cash. That's like 25 grand a smile.

Ron Gutman

#8. I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

Doris Lessing

#9. Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

Scott Barry Kaufman

#10. When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

Tom Stoppard

#11. All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

Robert D. Maurer

#12. While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of
souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and
solitude.

Ole Hallesby

#14. Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.

John Byrne

#15. People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Emile Chartier