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Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains

Live it simple, make it simple, and say it simple, the obvious key for happiness which life is all about. Problems begin when we use our overrated brains to explain something we do not fully comprehend and make ourselves experts.

I was happy to see Kyle and Caleb finally play the way they're capable of playing. Kyle had a great first set, but than he went a little brain-dead in the second set and started doing things he knew he shouldn't have been doing.

I think he'll be a success. He's a real smart guy, and he's knowledgeable about what he's doing. He's a different breed than Coach Guy, but he was the brains behind some of our workings at Tennessee Valley. He knows his stuff.

It didn't paralyze her, though. It's pretty ugly but at least it didn't go into her brain.

Most real good policemen understand that they would just love to take certain people and just take them to the alley and just blow their brains out.

Well, about five years ago, when I was invited to the Pentagon, they were still saying that, only 1.5% of the male pilots in the Air Force were black - and they still had a problem with some of the instructors saying blacks were not qualified to fly - blacks didn't have enough brains to fly. I mean, that was existing five years ago.

That way when it's time to hit the ground once the season is over, you're already off and running. The timing is never ideal in a coaching change. I talked to former coaches, NFL GMs, television folks. I picked people's brains and checked out the Internet to find out as much as I could. Indiana has time to do that. I didn't talk to any school or coaches but did hire a consultant to gauge the interest for us.

The 15-year-old brain is not the same as a 30-year-old brain, and so things are not going to affect it the same. And that's true of alcohol and it's also true of violent video games.

I would not have one as a pet. The only things they think about are food, reproduction and survival. That's it. They are not capable of analyzing much more than that. Their brains are the size of a walnut. They can't process information.

My brain told me 'coyote,' and my wife said I was crazy.

When you're first learning a skill, the brain determines what muscles are needed and when. Through practicing the skill, a mental 'blueprint' is created.

We believe these subjects and patients really learned to control their brain and, through that, their pain...Pain has a huge impact on individual patients, their families and society. I got incredibly jazzed by the results. We could change people's lives. However, significantly more science and testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain.

We had moderate growth in income but we're borrowing our brains out. The most concerning thing is that the level of savings is at less than one percent of personal income,

Usually there's some of the brain tissue that they're not going to get back but some vulnerable brain around the stroke that is salvageable.

We know that there are different paths to competence, and we believe there are fundamental differences in how male and female brains end up getting organized. Our next studies will give us some insight into where these processing differences are occurring.

The problem is the way the brain processes information. It's similar to a computer. The information is in there, but when you send it to the printer, the printer won't work.

Turnovers are frying my brain. It's so difficult for a coach to sit there and watch it happen, but we overcame it to our credit.

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

We played with our hats on, just intelligent basketball. We don't beat teams with our talent. You've got to play with your brains and when we do that, we can play with anybody.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

To be a good critic demands more brains and judgment than most men possess

We are always fascinated when the brain goes haywire.

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

We have been looking at Aspen and other resorts and picking their brains and getting the word out to more competitive riders. There should be some really good riders there.

When people see a wheelchair victim, people seem to think you've lost your brain. I need people to see that I hurt my neck, but I didn't hurt my brain.

While for many years after the death of the Commodore the Vanderbilt family remained in direct financial and operating control of the New York Central... yet the brains and resources of the Vanderbilt's were not alone responsible for the brilliant career of the system down to recent times.

There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury.

The participants are severely disabled vets with spinal cord injuries, amputees, brain injuries.

When you get through a day like this, you're happy it's over because your brain has had all it can stand for one day of this,

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

The reason they need to do that is to pick their brain on what they know about the family and all they know about the family because after they die, then you lose that resource totally.

Finding a new map in the brain is a truly exciting experience. It's a little like traveling to an unexplored island. It's literally charting new territory.

The governor has asked us to be open-minded about this. I think the governor is so open-minded that his brains fell out.

We seem to have those types of innings every game. We went brain-dead there in the second inning.

Wolves have bigger brains than dogs, so it was thought the wolves would do better. And chimpanzees are primates, closer to humans, so it was thought they would do better.

What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i

What I want to emphasize is that this is a victim of a homicide. This is a woman with children, with family members, who was sitting in a car and had a gun put to her head and her brains blown out.

We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.

We kind of went brain dead for 10 seconds in a 2-2 game.

We've been surprised to find out how malleable the brain is.

We went brain dead when we were up 2-1 with two runners on. They hit an infield fly and we didn't field it, and the ball bounced away and they eventually scored and tied the game. We wouldn't have been in that situation if not for that play.

We expected to have a better team than we've had here in a while. The key is to play to good against the teams you're going to compete with all year because there's been optimism built up, expectations and you want to keep that going. You don't want to come out of the gate slow and let the teams you're trying to overtake in your division beat your brains in cause then everybody's like where's the progress?

Vision doesn't happen in the eye. It happens at multiple processing stages in the brain. We study how objects are signaled or encoded by large populations of neurons at higher-level stages in the object-processing part of the brain.

To be honest, I just went brain dead. I was not asked to talk about projects, and I was not prepared.

We live in a competitive world with states and countries that will beat our brains in if we don't have the ability to compete.

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Brain dead? You can't be brain dead to play baseball, because you always have to adjust. Latin players, they're smart. I have friends all over the world, Spanish friends and English-speaking friends. They don't care. If you're good, you're good.

Cota is a great player and we've got a good rapport. I learned a lot from him. I pick his brains because he's been there. He's been real supportive.

Don't spend your whole day in one spot banging your brains out move.

Every animal has enough brains to tan its own hide.

Five different brains going at the same time it's easy to get sidetracked, but being on the same level is what brought us this far.

The results were very encouraging. But further research needs to be done using a larger number of people and testing them multiple times. We also need to examine their brains both before and after learning to meditate. Our group is currently planning to do this. Eventually, such research should reveal more about the function of the thickening; that is, how it affects emotions and knowing in terms of both awareness and judgment.

is one of the leading candidates for explaining how the changes we see in the brains of schizophrenics might have come about.

I see this as a fascinating experiment that reveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain.

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).

I wanted to do something that was a bit more rock 'n' roll. Because, believe me, I did not have the brains or the dexterity on the instrument to be so complex as John McLaughlin was. So I think we did a rock 'n' roll version of that.

perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was.

People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.

Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.

People don't think I've got the brains to be that clever.

A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway.

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.

The moral of the story is that with each person justice is served, but what is justice at the end of the day when my brains are blown out anyway?

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

As an example, we asked them to think about changing the meaning of the pain. Instead of thinking of it as a terrible experience, to think of it as something relatively pleasant. Then the patients were turned loose. Over time, subjects showed an increased ability to change their brain and by doing so to modulate their pain.

The brain of an 18-year-old college freshman is still far from resembling the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. When do we reach adulthood? It might be much later than we traditionally think.

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had is gone. It's been destroyed. And the doctor was right for 20 years. She did nothing to speak of.

The brain can reroute its signals and rewire itself.

The brain breaks down into little islands that can't talk to one another.

That's when I found out it was a tumor, and that he had fluid on the brain, which was building up and that's why he couldn't walk. You never think your child has a brain tumor. That's not something you entertain.

You're asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secretly love more. With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out; with the music, there's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

They said they loved seeing theater and sitting on the grass on the waterfront as long as it's well done. The hour we decided to do 'Crowns' is the hour we wanted to talk to Sharon. She has the energy, the brains and the presence for this show.

They say the brain heals for up to two years. He's going through different stages of coming out of it. They tell us he could wake up one day and be normal, or not wake up at all.

Although you no longer take up the highest post, you are still very busy, ... People of our age should keep their brains working ceaselessly.

Almost all of us do things that are impulsive, irresponsible and out of character (as teenagers). That's really tied to how (young people's) brains work, ... Fortunately, most people don't commit heinous crimes. But almost everyone can look back on things they did as adolescents and say to themselves, 'What was I thinking?'

They made it really simple for me because my brain hasn't been working too well. They just set regular screens and the plays they did call for me, the guys walked me through them.

They don't beat your brains out. They just make it tough for you to get them out.

There's a lot of data out there that will tell you that the computation that's going on here isn't based on just one neuron. The computational property is actually an emergent property of hundreds of thousands of neurons cooperating to produce the amazing processing power of the brain.

They're like a family of two. They could be not quite brothers but could be father and son in a sort of way. And there's the charming fact that Gromit doesn't speak, and Gromit, of course, is the brains of the family.

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.

A teenager's early experimentation might be minor, but it can still have a damaging effect on their developing brain,

As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education.

As we learn more and more about the teenage brain, which tells us that teenagers brains are not fully developed, and that might be part of the reason why they are prone to take more risks and not make good, sound judgement calls, and it may simply be because part of their brains have not fully developed. And there was a study done at Temple University that goes into greater detail on that.

The most controversial discussions are the ones we should raise around this (table) because this is where we have the most brains gathered.

It's exciting to be in the big leagues and be playing at this level, but to be playing on a team like this is even more exciting. With Salmon and Erstad and some of those guys who have been around a while, they know how to play the game. I just try to hang around and pick their brains and do the things that they do.

It's a bad habit that changes the brain and the younger you learn it, the harder it is to stop.

It was one of those times where we had brain cramps. You don't want that to ever happen, but it does sometimes.

It was beautiful. It was snowing pretty much all the way to the top. It's just nice and relaxing and peaceful, a good time to clear your brain.

It was getting our brains focused and getting ready. He talked about, on a scale from one to 10, being an 11. I really want to do this.

It was deliberate. I am sure some people think that I have not got the brains to be that clever, but I do have the brains.

It says the decline the brain experiences late in life is not inevitable. It can be affected by things like habitual exercise.

It's a bit embarrassing getting such a big prize. My collaborators really deserve it for all of their innovative and hard work. My long-time buddy, Paul Butler, has been the brains and the engine behind our planet search. I am indebted to him for every single planet we've found.

It's a big puzzle. If this is a knowledge economy, how come the brains aren't being compensated? Instead, the owners of physical capital are getting the rewards.