Top 1200 Brain Function Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Society can't function without shared prosperity.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there is no luminous inner light. If the asana is done with continual reference to the back of the brain, there is a reaction to each action, and there is sensitivity. Then life is not only dynamic, but it is also electrified with life force.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Form follows finances instead of function.

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

The whole function of education is to create Nazis.

We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

As a woman, I know you're young but you gotta hear it now,the most valuable part about you is your brain. Get an education,don't let anybody tell you that your body or the size that you wear or any of that bullshit matters because it doesn't. Your brain matters, so be the smart girl in the room because to be funny you have to be smart, because you have to get the joke

I think the greatest work in social psychology from the 1950s and '60s is enormously important. I wish every high school kid could take a course in social psychology. I think we're making enormous strides in understanding the brain. These aren't yet giving us great insights, but I feel like we're on the verge of it. In five or ten years this basically searching the brain is really going to change things.

You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a different side of your brain than the logic part that tells you that this person is horrible for you - "You should walk away!" While you're walking away, the other part of your brain is trying to gain control of your bodily functions. "Turn around! She's the one!"

If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

I don't know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, 'He's not as good a brain surgeon as his father.' I don't know whether that happens, but because of who Ma is, a lot of people have an opinion, which they form before they get to know me or before they see what I can do.

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The whole function of cities has been transformed.

You really can't function without a phone or an iPad.

Function influence but does not dictate form

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

Well, I've realized I can function with no sleep!

Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.

I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

America should function as a Christian nation.

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

Habits are a function of your subconscious mind.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Form follows function straight to hell.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

Form does not necessarily follow function

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.