Brains Quotes - page 21

Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions. (Simon Mainwaring)
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us. View quote
Stephen LaBerge
I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with. View quote
Sxip Shirey
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls. View quote
Sebastian Coe
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. View quote
Tris Speaker
At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents. View quote
Zeresenay Alemseged
All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out. View quote
Richard Kadrey
I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains. View quote
Megan McDonald
Altruism itself was so insisted upon in the latter half of the nineteenth century that ... theory and practice, words and deeds, stood in liveliest contradiction. ... Everywhere a conflict rent the world in twain: it created abysses in every thinker's scheme of things: it made its presence so unpleasantly real that the best brains gave up research and thinking, and crept for refuge into a profession, a craft, into libraries, or hid themselves in the mine-shafts of specialism. View quote
Oscar Levy
People don't think I've got the brains to be that clever. (David Beckham)
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. View quote
John Updike
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. View quote
Charles Churchill (satirist)
There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation. View quote
John Lydon
Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit. View quote
Daniel Abraham
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. View quote
Judy Garland
We use more discriminating intelligence when we buy a used car than when we buy a religion. Buying a used car you at least look underneath the hood, hit the tires, maybe take it to a mechanic to check it out. But in buying a religion you're supposed to wear these narrow blinders, so that if anybody disagrees you can block it out. It's basically, check your brains at the door when you join a religion. View quote
David C. Lane
It is somewhat humiliating, in this connection, to see how heavily traditional education sets about the task of making spelling enter into brains that assimilate with such ease the mnemonic contents of the game of marbles. But then, memory is dependent upon activity, and a real activity presupposes interest. View quote
Jean Piaget
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us. View quote
Francis Crick
We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out. View quote
Michael Shermer
There is some kind of juice in our brains that makes us only care about what's in front of us right this minute. Even if we know something different will happen later and we should think about that too. [...] If I could teach you one thing, Preston, that's it. Think about what's coming at you later on. (Barbara Kingsolver)
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park. View quote
John Williams
It is not strange that Menendez Pelayo should discover the Filipino scholar because in brains and heart they were the same. View quote
Epifanio de los Santos
The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information. View quote
Nicholas G. Carr