Intreaba Medicul Quotes & Sayings

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets. — Henry Markram

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity. — Erich Fromm

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Wicked ecclesiastics who show the worst example to the people," and, above all, nobles who empty the purses of the poor by their extravagance, and disdain them for "lowness of blod or foulenesse of body," for deformed shape of body or limb, for dullness of wit and uncunning of craft, and deign not to speak to them, and who are themselves stuffed with pride - of ancestry, fortune, gentility, possessions, power, comeliness, strength, children, treasure - "prowde in lokynge, prowde in spekyng, ... prowde in goinge, standynge and sytting." All would be drawn by fiends to Hell on the Day of Judgment. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Pleasure, of course, is a slippery word ... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. — Billy Collins

Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was - to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends - albeit more by circumstance than by choice - he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed - and thereby strained - by comprehensibility. — Ashim Shanker

The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things. — Christophe Honore

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway. — Richard Branson

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. — Warren Buffett

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers. — Mike Ferguson

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. — Voltaire