Gazzaniga Michael Quotes & Sayings

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible. — Ally Carter

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola. — Ezra Koenig

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. — Moliere

I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present. — Michael S. Gazzaniga

Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke. — Michael Gazzaniga

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. — Carson Daly

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with. — Tichina Arnold

It is intellectually dishonest to present the Republican Party as the only supporter of Zionism and Israel. The Democrats, while posing as an alternative to the right wing, are just as dedicated to Israel and they are far more dependent on Jewish votes and Jewish money than the Republicans. According to Israeli sources, over 70% of all contributions to Democratic candidates are provided by Jews; Jews provide a relatively meager 35% of all contributions to Republican candidates. — Israel Shamir

While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished. — Michael Gazzaniga

Don't leave home without your left hemisphere — Michael Gazzaniga

I'm actually a little comic nerd myself. — Kiowa Gordon

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible. — Michael S. Gazzaniga

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. — Michael Gazzaniga

Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal - that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone, not owing anything to anyone - is simply wrong. — Michael S. Gazzaniga

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. — Enid Bagnold

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one ... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it. — Deng Xiaoping

the study of psychophysics proves that it is impossible to bore a German." Thankfully, — Michael S. Gazzaniga

Apologize for what?" "For hurting you. For not trusting you and listening to Lily and Alex instead of staying strong and doing what I wanted. — Helena Hunting

The arts are not frosting but baking soda. — Michael S. Gazzaniga