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  • I'm newly widowed, so I've gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with, to doing it all on my own and questioning what I'm doing. I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adina Porter Quotes , Decision Quotes , Brain Quotes
  • I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Humorous 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Ross Quotes , Years 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
  • 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
  • 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