Dennis Lehane Quotes

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

The power of the mind. Basically, being able to control anyone's mind. That would be a very good power.

Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

I'm able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.