Brains Quotes

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Laughing brains are more absorbent.