We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

- Charlie Kaufman

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

- David Blaine

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

- Daniel Kahneman

It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

- Colin Camerer

It's always helpful to pick our fans' brains to see what their favorite videos are and to figure out what the momentum of our channel is. Not just based on views or likes or dislikes, but anecdotally.

- Charles Lincoln Neal

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

- Corliss Lamont

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

- Cat Power

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

- Cliff Richard

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

- Clare Balding

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

- Craig Venter

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

- Alan Alda

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

- Charles Kettering

I've learned in my older age that sexy gets you further than brains.

- Bill Engvall

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

- Art Bell

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

- Alan C. Greenberg

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

- Arjun Rampal

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

- Arthur Smith

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

- Alton Brown

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

- Anthony Hopkins