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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. -- Alfred Korzybski
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. -- Paul Cezanne
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. -- Learned Hand
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. -- George Crumb
Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious. -- Deepak Chopra
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. -- Carl Rogers
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. -- Wilhelm Wundt
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. -- Ingrid Newkirk
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. -- Deepak Chopra
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. -- Dan Millman
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. -- Timothy Leary
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! -- Daniel Dennett
Pressure is calming to the nervous system. -- Temple Grandin
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence. -- Deepak Chopra
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. -- William James
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel. -- Francesca Annis
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? -- Russell Hoban
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?. -- Russell Hoban
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. -- Michael Gazzaniga
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. -- Jean Cocteau
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. -- Marshall McLuhan
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. -- Norbert Wiener
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system. -- Elon Musk
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness. -- Wilhelm Wundt
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. -- David Foreman
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system. -- Marshall McLuhan
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home. -- Glenway Wescott
My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane. -- Anthony Bourdain
Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food. -- Leslie Mann
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain. -- George Will
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me. -- Andy Partridge
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus. -- Ada Lovelace
If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system. -- Jonathan Lipnicki
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food. -- Frans de Waal
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot. -- Anatoly Karpov
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis. -- Diana Nyad
We only have our nervous system to paint. -- Francis Bacon
Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us. -- Daniel Dennett
New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system. -- Paul Horn
Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure. -- Maxwell Maltz
Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health. -- Galen
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. -- Jaron Lanier
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. -- Francis Bacon
The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system. -- Nirmala Srivastava
He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system. -- Lewis Black
We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first. -- Julian Jaynes
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Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. -- Marshall McLuhan
You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system. -- Nirmala Srivastava
What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. -- Marshall McLuhan
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can. -- Francis Bacon
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. -- Paul Cezanne
What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system. -- Deepak Chopra
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. -- Max Eastman
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains. -- Miguel Nicolelis
Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out. -- George Lois
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. -- George Lois
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. -- John von Neumann
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. -- Bill Gates
If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. -- Sax Rohmer
We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place. -- Marianne Williamson
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. -- Francis Bacon
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions. -- Daniel D. Palmer
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality. -- Eric Kandel
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism. -- Tara Brach
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. -- Eric Clapton
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too. -- Scott McNealy
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. -- George Orwell
The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response. -- Tara Brach
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system. -- Arthur Koestler
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt. -- Charles Horace Mayo
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution. -- Timothy Leary
Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil? -- Robert J. Wilson
...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind... -- Wilder Penfield
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral. -- Mark Danner
Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning. -- Katsuki Sekida
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Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill. -- Erica Jong
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible. -- Alan Watts
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Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time. -- Mike Seabrook
Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully. -- Deepak Chopra
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself. -- Robert Anton Wilson
You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5) -- Jonathan Lethem

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