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    Criss Jami
    “I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: brain, cognition, compassion, control, creative, creative-genius, creativity, disorder, driving, genius, illness, intelligence, knowledge, mental, mental-illness, pain, psychopath, schizophrenia, self-control, sorrow, sympathy, understanding
    238 likes

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    Graham Hancock
    “I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.”
    ― Graham Hancock
    tags: brain, consciousness
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    Santiago Ramón y Cajal
    “Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”
    ― Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator
    tags: brain, cognitive, desire, neuron, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, science
    116 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: brain, challenge, clever, cognition, cognitive, cognitive-psychology, contemplation, creative, creative-thinking, excessive, funny, humor, ideas, insanity, mentality, perfectionism, philosophy, psychology, think, thinking, thought, witty, wordplay
    110 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: attention, awareness, brain, cognition, compassion, dopamine, emotions, empathy, exaggeration, external, extroversion, extrovert, feelings, internal, introversion, introvert, personality, pity, private, psychology, public, senses, sensitivity, social, sympathy, traits
    96 likes

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    Jay Kristoff
    “Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
    tags: brain, intelligent, mind, smart, weapon
    136 likes

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    Jenny Offill
    “A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”
    ― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
    tags: brain, clouds, genius, knowledge, sleep, sleeping, sleepless, sleeplessness
    51 likes

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  • #8
    “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
    ― Emerson M. Pugh
    tags: brain, comprehension, human, understand
    70 likes

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  • #9
    Sam Harris
    “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
    ― Sam Harris, Free Will
    tags: brain, free-will, mind
    114 likes

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  • #10
    Dan Brown
    “Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity”
    ― Dan Brown, Inferno
    tags: brain, neuroscience
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    “Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like it. The human brain creates the human mind, and then the human mind tries to underhand the human brain, however long it takes and whatever the cost.”
    ― Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
    tags: brain, mind, neuroscience
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    Francis Crick
    “It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.”
    ― Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
    tags: brain, universe
    14 likes

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  • #13
    “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.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: achieve, achievers, action, ahievement, brain, call, congratulation, dream-big, dreams, excellence, extra-mile, food-for-thought, gifts, guts, israelmore-ayivor, knowledge, money, optimize, people, pick, pocket, pockets, poor, potential, potentials, rich, talent, talents, thieves, use, wealthy, weath, wisdom, wise
    38 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: brain, humour, perception
    25 likes

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    Helen Thomson
    “Our inability to understand our own minds is the price we pay for the ability to question it in the first place.”
    ― Helen Thomson, Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
    tags: brain, mind, neuroscience
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    Steven Magee
    “The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: brain, humanity, insanity, instrument, knowledge, mental, mind, psychology, science, wisdom
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    Saidi Mdala
    “You become ill or attract illness or dis-ease into your life because you refuse to let your brain grow.”
    ― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters
    tags: brain, diseases, growth-quotes, inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes, success-quotes, thinking-quotes
    1 likes

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  • #18
    “The message being that the divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds.”
    ― Dr. Robert Ford
    tags: brain
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  • #19
    “Practicing the art of sensual living daily is the process of rewiring your brain to always be connected to joy and not anxiety.”
    ― Lebo Grand
    tags: anxiety, art, beautiful-life, brain, connected, daily, good-life, joy, rewiring, sensual
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    Elmar Hussein
    “İf you can change your brain, by the use of mindfulness and meditation, you can also change your life. Your life is what you think about your life. And whatever you think is closely related to what is going on in the brain.Therefore, let's start with a change in the brain.”
    ― Elmar Hussein
    tags: brain, life, meditation, mindfulness
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    Elmar Hussein
    “There is no need to share your thoughts with a closed-minded person simply because his mind does not belong to himself; his brain just a container of the ideas which belong to others.”
    ― Elmar Hussein
    tags: brain, idea, mind
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    Steven Magee
    “There are no limits in the universe of imagination.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: brain, design, idea, imagination, limit, mind, psychology, smart, thought, universe
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    Dean Burnett
    “Everything you are is a feature of your brain, and as such much of what your brain does is dedicated to making you look and feel as good as possible. ]...] For example by modifying your memories to make you feel better about yourself.”
    ― Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
    tags: brain, ego, mind, self-esteem
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    Toni Sorenson
    “You’ll never have a positive life by thinking negatively.”
    ― Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
    tags: brain, health, life, positive-thinking, thoughts
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
    1956 likes

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  • #28
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
    tags: anger, buddhism, freedom, happiness, peace
    1339 likes

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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148391 likes



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