Top 1200 Brain Cancer Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm a Cancer; I'm music passionate. I like long walks on the beach.

Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. 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.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?

It is only the Sahasrara has to grow, not the Spirit. The more sensitive the Sahasrara is, the more it receives the spiritual qualities of the Spirit. Actually the peace is felt in the Sahasrara. The bliss is also felt in the Sahasrara because that is the brain and the brain is the epitome of our nervous system, central nervous system, of consciousness itself.

Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.

When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

Too many women are dying needlessly from ovarian cancer.

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

When they told me I had cancer, I thought I was going to die.

That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.

The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.

Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.

I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

I've had cancer cells removed from my womb several times.

I'm a Cancer; I'm music-passionate. I like long walks on the beach.

I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.

Cancer prevention requires awareness, determination and creativity.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of time, done over 21 days in a row, you can actually rewire your brain. Your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world for the positive versus the negative. Seeing things in a frame of positivity and gratitude is a muscle. You can strengthen this muscle through practice.

When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

I want to capture the mood I have now, post-cancer, in my music.

When I first started out in my career, I'd been a lit major in college so I didn't have a lot of choices. The traditional options were management consultant or investment banking, and I hadn't even taken an economics class so those were pretty much out. I didn't want to go into academia. For me, research and instinct were my unique tools that seemed to work best on a marketing and merchandizing path. It's kind of right-brain and left-brain.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

Men are at risk for breast cancer as well. That's absolutely true.

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.