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You can't process me with a normal brain.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.

When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

If it turns out that the Mayans are right and the world is going to end, you know what this means? _x000D_ Lindsay Lohan is a genius. She's been partying her brains out. She owes taxes. She’s crashing cars. She’s a genius!

The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a missed opportunity for a society-wide push to understand and reduce our need to power the brain down for hours every day. Every hour we sleep is an hour we are not working, finding mates, or teaching our children; if sleep does not have a vital adaptive function to pay for its staggering opportunity cost, it could be ‘the greatest mistake the evolutionary process ever made’.

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

Be aware of the big difference between inspired action and activity. Activity comes from the brain-mind and is rooted in disbelief and lack of faith - you are taking action to “make” your desire happen. Inspired action is allowing the law to work through you and to move you. _x000D__x000D_ Activity feels hard. Inspired action feels wonderful.

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

I like to open the doors to people's brain.