A Quote by Douglas Coupland

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Douglas Coupland

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Begin Brain Brain Damage Damage Does End Personality

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.

B.K.S. Iyengar

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

Jules Feiffer

Krushna is my boyfriend but my life doesn't begin and end with him and neither does his professional career begin and end with me.

Kashmira Shah

Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

Rachel Caine

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

Jonathan Gottschall

Everyone uses the brain at every moment, but we use it unconsciously. We let it run in the background without realizing the power we have to reshape the brain. When you begin to exercise your power, the everyday brain, which we call the baseline brain, starts to move in the direction of super brain.

Deepak Chopra

If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.

David Eagleman

For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

Michael Lesy

Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Our media does by creating fears, encouraging hate and then selling the remedy to the fears and hate the media creates.

Steven Machat

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

Bennet Omalu

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

John Cage

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

Thomas R. Insel

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

Mike Tyson

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Francois Mauriac

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Thomas Harris

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

Steven Pinker

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