"The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness."
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"Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first."
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"Economics is not brain surgery."
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"You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain."
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"A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop."
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"If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped."
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"I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the person to look at it, and quietly in their brain, they can just put it together and say, "Cool, that one works"."
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"You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways."
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"All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want."
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"I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did."
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"If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
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"Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life."
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"With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought."
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"There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate."
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"On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise."
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"Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there."
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"The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself."
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"If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs."
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"Too much information will make your brain choke."
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"Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated."
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