#brain

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school. ↗

— Paul Tough

#children #science #science

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it! ↗

— Minsky M.A.

#cognition #science #science

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. ↗

— Margaret Chittenden

#chittenden #crazy #margaret #room #writers

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#human #human brain #incredible #machine

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#disease #form #frustrating #i #legs

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#bone #brain #catch #his #i

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers. ↗

— Pat Brown

#catches #doing #fine #investigators #killers

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#because #becoming #brain #dancers #decrease

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#buy #door #friday #friday night #go