Tony Buzan Quotes

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper training you can quickly reap the benefits of this enormous potential.

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

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue that we don't use it effectively. Some of us are not trained to use our brains to their full potential. But definitely, all of it is there.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.