Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.
I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.
I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.
This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I. Q. of a rutabaga.
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.
All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'. . . and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You. '
There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.
I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.
If marketers could uncover what is going on in our brains that makes us choose one brand over another-what information passes through our brain's filter and what information doesn't-well, that would be key to truly building brands of the future.
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
. . . when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
