Top 1200 Brain Injury Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

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.

Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

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.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

It’s my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I’m not using my brain, I’m not doing the things my coach is telling me.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I talked to a brain specialist who told me when you think like someone else for such a long time, your brain actually changes.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.

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.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

Around a quarter of cancers eventually spread to the brain. As people live longer, their risk of developing cancer increases; as cancer survival rates improve, their risk of developing secondary tumours in the brain increases. We can therefore expect increasing numbers of brain-tumour patients.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Nobody programmes the brain, yet it keeps learning. India shouldn't miss the emerging age of brain-inspired computing.

A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.

When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.

The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.