William James Quotes

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.

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.

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

Your brain is like a sleeping giant.

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

If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.

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

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.

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?

At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

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

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.