Neurochemicals Quotes & Sayings

I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places. — Caroline Goodall

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ... — Elspeth Huxley

Of course, dopamine didn't evolve for crossing arbitrary lines on the ground. It evolved to release energy when you're about to meet a survival need. If an ape climbs a high tree for a delicious mango, dopamine spurts as he nears the reward. That tells his body to release the reserve tank of energy, which helps him do what it takes to meet his needs. He doesn't say "I did it!" in words, but neurochemicals create that feeling without need for words. — Loretta Graziano Breuning

The snobbish lost in laud. — Toba Beta

Why do superheroes wear capes? His brother's voice.
To show how cape-able they are? His own childhood voice. — Lokesh Sharma

And I had nine years to sort out how I feel about you ... nine years. It's not impulsive to want to be with you, Daisy. If anything, it's long overdue. — Katy Regnery

This is the vicious cycle. When we feel pain from our physical debility, that pain amplifies our sense of hopelessness; the less hopeful we feel, the fewer endorphins and enkephalins and the more CCK we release. The more pain we experience due to these neurochemicals, the less able we are to feel hope. — Jerome Groopman

I have lived through worse, she thought, and she said it aloud, bit through the words: "I've survived worse than you."

"You have," Raine gasped, and he made to roll her again. — Kameron Hurley

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. — Benjamin Jowett

It says quite clearly that processes within the brain that trigger a hormone release can cause enormous effects on the body." It says, that is, that what we think can change our bodies, that there is a quantifiable chemical link between mind and matter, spirit and body, imagination and reality. Spiritual leaders, great thinkers, artists have been saying this very thing for ages, but the fact that hardheaded, hard-research oriented neuroscientists are not just saying it but actually identifying and measuring the very neurochemicals that link idea with matter adds a new legitimacy and urgency to the idea. — Michael Hutchison

An idea doesn't count if you can't use it — Beth Comstock

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution. — Timothy Leary

In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit. — Ernst Junger

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now. — Danny Masterson

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips

It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country. — Gordon Brown

Any form of negative rumination - for example, worrying about your financial future or health - will stimulate the release of destructive neurochemicals. — Andrew B. Newberg

Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness — John Lennon