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  • Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Anxiety Quotes , Brain Quotes
  • The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Brain Quotes , Connections Quotes
  • Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Anxiety Quotes , Brain Quotes
  • Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Brain Quotes , Location Quotes
  • Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. J. Jacobs Quotes , Boys Quotes , Brain Quotes
  • I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my brain. Both directors combine moral seriousness with great artistry and, certainly in Hitchcock's case, an enormous respect for plot, for its power to enthrall and delight.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Ross Quotes , Years Quotes , Brain Quotes
  • The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Brain Quotes , Mind Quotes