A Quote by David Brooks

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

David Brooks

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David Brooks
American - Politician
Born: August 11, 1961

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.

Gary Zukav

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Marilyn Ferguson

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

John Cooper Clarke

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

Richard Gere

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Lisel Mueller

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Meghan O'Rourke

At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

Timothy Leary

The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.

Jonathan Franzen

It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.