Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Arthur Ashe

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Ben Gazzara

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Alan Coren

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Brett Somers

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Travis Bradberry

Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Juliana Hatfield

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

Seth Shostak

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

Eric Nestler

Our study provides insight into how chronic stress triggers changes in the brain that are much more long-lived than the effects of existing antidepressants.

Helen Christensen

Our findings do not support these beliefs. In the present study, we found no relationship between brain shrinkage and education level.

Dale Robinson

Research is showing more and more that using movement and doing brainteasers increases the overall health of your brain.

Sonny Rollins

Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get.

Becca Fitzpatrick

and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.

Bill Shankly

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

B. F. Skinner

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

Carl Sagan

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

Charles Darwin

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

Charles Darwin

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Cameron Sinclair

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Alain de Botton

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Deepak Chopra

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.