Brains Quotes - page 17

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit. (Randall Munroe)
Atlantis?' Jason asked. 'That's a myth,' Percy said. 'Uh... don't we deal in myths?' 'No, I mean it's a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.' 'So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh? View quote
Rick Riordan
Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will. View quote
Richard Bandler
Brains aren't designed to get results. They go in DIRECTIONS. View quote
Richard Bandler
Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world. View quote
Richard Wiseman
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. View quote
Siri Hustvedt
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life. View quote
Stacy Schiff
Robert Arctor halted. Stared at them, at the straights in their fat suits, their fat ties, their fat shoes, and he thought, Substance D can't destroy their brains; they have none. (Philip K. Dick)
Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge. View quote
Philippa Perry
Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up. View quote
Philippa Perry
If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into. View quote
Philippa Perry
What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts? View quote
Francesca Lia Block
When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well. View quote
Henry Cloud
Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior. View quote
Henry Cloud
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize-they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense. View quote
Charles Duhigg
Have you no honor? No decency? No damn brains? You don't kill me with bullets. You just piss me off. And you just ruined my friggin' favorite coat. For that, you die. (Wulf) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains? View quote
Shawn Achor
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)
"She was stronger than the gods who created her?” "Guys, I didn't make this stuff up. Don't ask me to rationalize it. Goblin, you've been everywhere. You ever seen a religion that can't be picked to shreds by any nonbeliever with brains enough to tie his own bootlaces? View quote
Glen Cook
I don't know...but then, if God had intended Man to think, He would have given him brains, I suppose. View quote
Algis Budrys
One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working. View quote
James Patterson
I think fish do have personalities. Fish have very small brains so there's not much going on in there. But different types of fish have different personalities. View quote
Jeremy Wade