{"quotes":[{"text":"No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.","author":"Bohumil Hrabal","tags":["books","brains","sleep","underwear"],"id":507,"author_id":"Bohumil+Hrabal"},{"text":"It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she’d finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn’t seem to give it up.","author":"Susan Elizabeth Phillips","tags":["body","brains","crush","teacher"],"id":2176,"author_id":"Susan+Elizabeth+Phillips"},{"text":"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["brains","color","reason","rights"],"id":18776,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Our brains resist change, they rail against it, our amygdala will always want the safe bet. But are the obstacles truly insurmountable? Is it a brick wall? Or is it a sliding door, which, once you decide to approach it, begins to swish open? Because even though our brains prefer safety in the short run, in the long run they crave meaning, challenge, and novelty.","author":"Barbara Bradley Hagerty","tags":["aging","brains","challenge","change","fear","meaning","midlife","novelty"],"id":21990,"author_id":"Barbara+Bradley+Hagerty"},{"text":"Our minds are incredibly powerful things.","author":"Daniel Willey","tags":["brain","brains","mind","minds","power","powerful"],"id":26457,"author_id":"Daniel+Willey"},{"text":"If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["alter","alter-personalities","bangambiki","brain-programming","brain-washing","brains","brainwashing-brainwashing","catechize","condition","conditioning","conditioning","convince","educate","heart","indoctrinate","indoctrinated","indoctrination","mass-control","mass-programming","mind-control","mind-control-programming","mind-control","mind-game","mind-games","mind-programming","pearls-of-eternity","programming","programming","programming-your-mind","propaganda","propaganda","proselytize","proselytizers","proselytizing","robot","robot-programming","robots","thought-control","thought-control"],"id":32082,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly 'good' thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["attention","beauty","bill-gates","brains","character","culture","gegeara","good","good-look","good-looking","good-looks","heart","impact","knowledge","olaotan-fawehinmi","oniegegara","right-partner","skill","smart-people","succeed","success","teacher","value"],"id":32854,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"text":"[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would.","author":"Kevin Brockmeier","tags":["brains","filing","loans","ocd","personality","record-keeping","thoughts"],"id":39489,"author_id":"Kevin+Brockmeier"},{"text":"Atlantis?' Jason asked.'That's a myth,' Percy said.'Uh...Don't we deal in myths?''No, I mean it's a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.''So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh?","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["atlantis","brains","jason-grace","made-up-myth","myths","percy-jackson","true-myth"],"id":39627,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, 'What do you really want?","author":"George Huang","tags":["brains","establishment","fairy-tale","romance","storybook","want","wants"],"id":40971,"author_id":"George+Huang"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":90,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}