#brain

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #being #bizarre #brain #days

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#brain #face #i #i think #intelligence

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#brain #combination #easily #ever #femininity

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it. ↗

— Scott Caan

#every #girl #go #going #great

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#beauty #better #boy #brains #prefers

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. ↗

— John Calvin

#brain #certain #forge #forsake #god

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#brain #cannot #come #heart #non-violence

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#direct #heart #into #route #songs

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bookshop #bookshops #brain #ideas #mankind

[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our “new strengths in visual-spatial intelligence” go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of “deep processing” that underpins “mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection. ↗

— Nicholas G. Carr

#science #imagination