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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode. -- N. K. Jemisin
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. -- Kevin Kelly
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. -- Will Cuppy
I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking. -- Rick Wakeman
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. -- Douglas Coupland
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it. -- Mark McGwire
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long. -- Rainn Wilson
Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested. -- James Marsters
Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. -- Jaron Lanier
That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves. -- Eric McCormack
For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it. -- Kate McKinnon
I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain. -- Christine Quinn
I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain. -- Ildar Abdrazakov
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. -- Alexandre Dumas
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies. -- Miguel Nicolelis
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment. -- Christine Quinn
Thinking is movement confined to the brain -- Arvid Carlsson
If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel? -- Van Morrison
The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. -- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution -- Steven Pinker
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. -- Daniel Goleman
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, -- Stephen Hawking
Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The thinking brain influences the bodyâ??s responses and it makes a neat little loop. -- Brad Warner
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism. -- Mark Hyman
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism. -- Mark Hyman
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business. -- Richard Branson
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have. -- Joseph E. LeDoux
Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain. -- Jimmy Fallon
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. -- Barbara de Angelis
I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical. -- Jeet
I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain. -- Jill Bolte Taylor
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. -- Rick Riordan
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits. -- Deepak Chopra
Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness. -- Michio Kushi
I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake. -- Jane McGonigal
The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking ... -- Sharon Begley
It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life. -- Daniel H. Pink
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today. -- Nick Blaemire
If you smile, even if youâ??re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking youâ??re happy -- Candace Bushnell
I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles. -- Kieron Gillen
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.â? â??Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly. -- Brandon Sanderson
Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide. -- Ray Kroc
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. -- Stephen Hawking
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. -- Will Cuppy
What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. -- William S. Burroughs
When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain. -- Al Michaels
My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up. -- Shelby Lynne
Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain. -- George Szell
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. -- Becca Fitzpatrick

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