Top 1200 Nervous System Quotes & Sayings

He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system.

The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

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.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now so pervasive that people barely blink when they see it, and certainly raise very few questions about what it means pedagogically and politically. Violence is the DNA, the nervous system of this system's body politic.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.

The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.

The forward bend really relaxes the nervous system and brings blood flow back to the brain.

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

Internally, we sometimes say Slack is like a nervous system, connective tissue, or the internal network.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.