Timothy Leary Quotes

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

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

Squirrel brains make you smart.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.