Brain Power Quotes:

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable, Equality For All, Equality Of People

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

- Eartha Kitt

topic: School, Successful, Air, Brain Power

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

- Larry Wall

topic: Power, Design, Community, Perl, Brain Power

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

- Peter Lynch

source: Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

topic: Investing Money, Brain, Making Money, Brain Power

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: Birthday, School, Exercise, Complicated Life, School Days

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

- Richard Branson

topic: Thinking, Keys, Creative, Critical Thinking, Creative Problem Solving

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.69, Penguin

topic: Brain, Impossible, Made, Brain Power

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

- William James

source: "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Life Wisdom, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge. Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power and propel you along at ever-increasing speeds. It’s not an exclusive path with access granted only to those with a special gift for learning. It is, instead, available to everyone who has a brain. Anything’s possible.

- Dominic O'Brien

topic: Memories, Keys, Imagination, Special Gifts, Brain Power

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Positive, Leadership, Uplifting, Joy And Pain, Joyful Heart

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Best Success, Innovative Ideas

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Player, Emotional, Brain Power

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Book, Miracle, Brain, Brain Power

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

- Kenichi Ohmae

topic: Brain, Different, Analysis, Reintegration, Brain Power

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2009). “Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)”, p.171, Random House

topic: Brain, Blame, Finding Someone, Brain Power

Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

- Steven Weber

topic: Smart, Commitment, Space, Brain Power

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Passion, What Matters, People, Brain Power

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

- George W. Bush

source: Remarks to Students at St. Petersburg University, Russia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2002.

topic: Country, Russia, Brain, Brain Power

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Hands, Brain, Variation, Brain Power

If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

- Jesse Lauriston Livermore

topic: Fun, Men, Race, Subtraction, Bookkeepers

The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

- Benjamin Graham

source: "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part V, Chapter XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, p. 234, 1937.

topic: Men, People, Imperfection, Deep Depression, Brain Power

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

- Gail Zappa

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Brain, Criminals, Details, Zappa, Brain Power

Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Education, Military, Mean, Missiles, Systems Of Government

If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Moon, Skeletons, Museums, Star Gazing, Apocalyptic

Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We will start with the aim and object that there will be 134 men and women, pledged to 134 Scottish constituencies, to spend their whole brain power, their whole courage and their whole soul in making Scotland into a country in which we can take people from all the nations of the earth and say: this is our land, this is our Scotland, these are our people, these are our men, our works, our women and children: can you beat it?

- James Maxton

source: Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.9, Indiana University Press

topic: Country, Children, Men, Brain Power

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

topic: Brain, Statistics, Logic, Desirable, Brain Power

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Change, Funny Inspirational, Business, Can't Change People, Politics Funny

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Ignorance, Differences, Mind, Brain Power

There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

- Gene Stratton-Porter

source: Gene Stratton-Porter (2006). “A Girl of the Limberlost”, p.208, Applewood Books

topic: Real, Soul, Brain, Brain Power

You’re not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Brain, Tears, Salt, Brain Power

A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

- Jim Nollman

topic: Spiritual, Art, Flower, Meteorology, Pharmacy

I can't believe you jokers fixed it." Hi was picking his way down to the beach. "Believe it, clown. Too much brain power here to fail." Still pumped, Shelton threw another palm Ben's way. "Oh, I'm sure." Hi streched, yawned. "It was something highly technical, I suppose? Something requiring mechanical ability? Nothing as simple as tightening a wire or flippin a switch, right?" Ben reddened. Shelton developed an intrest in his sneakers. Score one for Hi.

- Kathy Reichs

topic: Beach, Believe, Simple, Brain Power

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Baseball, Depressing, Men, Pluto, Common Cold

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Kids, Grandchildren, Technology, Contributors, Brain Power