Quotes of: Brain-surgery Keyword

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Ana Monnar

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Aimee Mann

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

Shawn Achor

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

Salvatore Scibona

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

Wisdom

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.

Life

I wish our brains could ‘hunger’, like our tummies do

Motivational

Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!

Love

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

William Howard Taft

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

Bruce Feiler

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

Win Butler

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different...

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

People rely on intelligence to solve problems, and they are naturally baffled when comprehension proves impotent to effect emotional change. To the neocortical brain, rich in the power of abstractions, understanding makes all the difference, but it d...

A General Theory of Love

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life intere...

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is mere...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add two more, the total will be six. That is logic. But behind this logic, there are underlying assumptions. Now, if somebody tells you, there are fo...

A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life