Top 1200 Brain Function Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.

I love how the Mariners function as a team. That feeling is important to me.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

The government's intention is to function, to have debates in Parliament, and to work in the interest of the people.

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that “when are the children going to have time to play?” Well, they’re not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don’t understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said quietly. "I hate being in my brain sometimes. I have to get out." "What do you do?" Amy asked. Dan shrugged "I go to other places. My toes. My shoulders. But mostly here." He tapped his chest and immediately reddened. "I know. It's stupid." "Not really," Amy said. "I wish I could do that, too.

Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Ew. Someone put the dog out, "Rosalie murmured wrinkling her nose. Have you herd this one, Psycho? how do a blond's brain cells die?" She didn't say anything. Well?" I asked."Do you know the punch line or not?" She looked pointedly at the TV and ignored me. Has she heard it?" I asked Edward. No." He answered. Awesome. So you'll enjoy this, bloodsucker--a blond's brain cells die alone.

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Lending rate is a function of both liquidity as well as credit demand.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

If you think about what are glasses, they are the best example of form and function.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work.

The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.

I have to eat a lot to function, so I don't really diet, especially when I have to work out more.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.