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"The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution."
"My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn't I go to a shrink?"
"It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts."
"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor."
"Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!"
"I love dipping into worlds at a fast and furious pace. A little glimpse allows the audience to put together the rest of that world in their brain. I love sketches that require the audience to piece together the comedic engine themselves. Give them all the information but not tell them what the scene is about so they can have that eureka moment of, "Oh my God, he's only used to the way urban students pronounce their names. That's what's going on here."."
"The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought."
"If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position."
"One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end."
"Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place."
"If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it."
"The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do."
"If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly."
"If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert"
"I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task."
"Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues."
"You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying."
"The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly."
"Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?"
"If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life."
