#rain

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#atmosphere #brains

When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#contract #dance #day #even #go

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#application #art #beauty #beyond #brain

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#angel #appetites #brain #clear #eye

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

#before #brain #capacities #hands #honorable

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#depressive #fry #know #like #lot

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#coming #depend #genetically #information #many

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#always #athletics #been #better #bit