Steven Erikson Quotes

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

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

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

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

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.