Quotes by Brain You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. Annie Dillard break brain heart No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks. Annie Dillard brain trying children [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship. Annie Dillard eye brain yellow But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain. Annie Proulx let-it-go brain writing Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. Annie Smith Peck endurance practice brain I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly. Anthony Hopkins creative young brain I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone. Anthony Hopkins matter stones brain Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. Anthony Hopkins theatre acting brain We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active. Anthony Hopkins piano play brain It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. Antoine Rivarol has-beens said brain The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling. Antoinette Brown Blackwell memorable brain feelings An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. Anton Chekhov artist brain sometimes I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. Antonia Fraser clever brain men A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it. Antonio Damasio self mind brain There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body. Antonio Damasio body mind brain So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not. Antonio Damasio important brain thinking Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. Antonio Damasio simple brain add More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience. Antonio Damasio psychology mind brain We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now. Antonio Damasio self mind brain When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. Antonio Damasio pain compassion brain «56789101112131415»