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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Harvey Milk
Every
Destroy
Enter
Bullet
Brain
Closet
Door
Should
I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.
Justin Bieber
Crazy
Think
Way
Nuts
Brain
Normal
Just
Works
Differently
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
William S. Burroughs
Technology
Confuse
Purpose
Brain
Body
Serve
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow
Become
Action
Never
Ideas
Coupled
Occupied
Brain
Brain Cells
Than
Cells
Bigger
Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.
Bradley Whitford
Politics
Right-Wing
Stem
Brain
Lot
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Humor
Significant
Most
Brain
Human
Human Brain
Far
Activity
Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.
Future
Wisdom
Health
Family
Me
Crazy
You
Stuff
Make
Sure
Go
Dollars
Brain
Get
Ask
Your
Sanity
Help
Prepare
Million
Million Dollars
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
Helen Fisher
You
Someone
Attachment
Drives
Massage
Chemicals
Go
Brain
Up
Levels
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
John C. Crosby
Direction
Mentoring
Push
Pick
Brain
Listen
Right
Ear
Right Direction
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.
Michael Merzenich
Work
Day
Progress
Every
Born
Slowly
How
Continuously
Brain
Improving
Die
Declining
Use
Your
Plastic
Function
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
Sergey Brin
Half
Google
Brain
Want
Your
Third
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
People
Somebody
Become
Wildly
Immediately
Minute
Idiots
Brain
Committee
Committees
Turn
Suffer
You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
Bill Lee
You
People
Half
Side
Minds
Right Side
Only
Fact
Brain
Left
Controls
Body
Your
Your Body
Therefore
Right
Two
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
Bruce Lipton
Work
Healing
Will
True
Powerful
Equally
Chemicals
Opposite
Brain
Effect
Bloodstream
Expects
Sends
Which
Therapy
Treatment
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
Charlie Sheen
Man
Constitution
Heart
Tiger
Got
Brain
Blood
Different
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'
David Suzuki
Future
Creative
Memory
Creativity
Made
Gave
Those
Characteristics
Something
Invented
Vast
Had
Advantage
Idea
Were
Brain
Very
Curiosity
Curious
Did
Human
Storage
Human Brain
Us
Special
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
Good
Intelligence
Others
Our
Polish
Brain
Against
Rub
To be a carpenter or a builder or a home inspector, you have to have that kind of visual brain where you can sort of imagine something taken apart.
Nick Petrie
Home
You
Carpenter
Kind
Visual
Something
Inspector
Taken
Sort
Builder
Brain
Where
Apart
Imagine
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.
Paul Bloom
Nature
Survival
Natural
Our
Virus
Drawn
Rats
Selection
Shaped
Toward
Docile
Like
Snakes
Brain
Getting
Human
Human Brain
Reproduction
Warm
Natural Selection
Landscapes
Aspects
Payoff
Cockroaches
Enhance
Creatures
Presence
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Result
Care
Long
Our
Complex
Physical
Imperfection
Written
Perfection
Environment
Takes
Development
Exerted
Years
Brain
Intellectual
Intellectual Development
End
End Result
Human
Influences
Human Brain
Psychological
Us
Engine
Whoever
Program
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
Sophia Bush
Respect
Intelligence
Face
Somebody
Think
Sexiest
Status
Pretty
Pretty Face
More
Brain
Than
Anybody
Wants
Use
Who
Thing
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
Thomas Huxley
Work
Nature
Man
Better
Kind
Indication
Had
He
Part
Head
She
Him
Without
Stimulants
Brain
Hand
Did
Any
Cannot
Mean
Turn
Worker
When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
Tommy Chong
You
Happy
World
Spirit
Spirit World
Spirits
Along
Ideas
Brain
Hit
Prod
Whisper
Really
Groove
Your
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.
Richard Dawkins
Wake Up
Power
Every
Our
Our Lives
Visions
Dream
Had
Highly
Knock
Most
Until
Hallucination
Least
Brain
Wake
Up
Experiences
Which
Us
Convincing
Shows
Illusions
Lives
Every Night
Night
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett
Truth
Knowledge
Soul
Experience
Added
Ours
Must
Emotion
Until
Force
Felt
Without
Brain
May
Aware
Cognition
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis
Time
Man
Women
Feeling
Shifting
Difficult
Thinking
More
Does
Brain
Than
Difficult Time
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