Quotes Tagged "brain"

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

Wisdom is locked inside of an insane mind.

Our brains are our command centers. Every thought and belief pattern we hold to be true within our core is accepted and implemented by our bodies.

Writing quotes is therapy for my damaged brain.

Knowledge is the tip of the iceberg whereas wisdom is the entire iceberg.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.

When dopamine dips, your unhappy chemicals get your attention. You get that “do something” feeling, and you have to decide what to do. One option is to accept the unhappy chemicals and figure out what’s triggering them. Another option is to quickly distract yourself from them with a behavior you expect to trigger more dopamine.

When you feel wronged by life, you give yourself permission to have another cookie, or another drink, or another pill, or another sulk. After all you’ve been through, why deprive yourself anymore? This is a vicious cycle. You keep feeling wronged in order to enjoy more of your consolation prize.

Blaming others for your unhappiness is a habit that’s hard to give up because it triggers some happy chemicals. You feel important when you battle perceived injustice (serotonin), and you bond with others who feel similarly deprived (oxytocin). You get excited when you seek and find evidence that you have been denied your fair share of happiness (dopamine). You may even trigger endorphins by welcoming physical pain into your life as evidence of your deprivation. You keep building a circuit for seeking happiness by feeling wronged.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness. Third should come understanding. Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

Tell your brain to be kind to you today. Easy on the memories, heavy on hope, and quiet with the criticism.

You alone have the power to determine your value. Don’t let somebody else paste a discount sticker on you. You’re priceless.

Writing quotes often inspires research.

Developing quotes inspires my research to venture into unique areas.

When I started displaying a dementia like illness, I began developing quotes to exercise my damaged brain.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

All achievements – all feats of excellence, rise from the protoplasmic realm of the brain.