Alan Watts Quotes, Anxiety Quotes, Brain 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.

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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

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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.

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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.

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I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

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My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

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You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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