Top 1200 Brain Function Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

The main function of strength for a lineman is usually to move somebody.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.

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.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

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.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

Vests are for more than just function - they are fashion.

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 don't think rock music has any positive function.

The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

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.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.

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.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

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 function of a great library is to store obscure books.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

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.

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.

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.

The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.

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.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

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.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.