Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

It's good to make your brain work more than your body.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

A thought is an idea in transit.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

My mind is always going.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I have a mind that always wants to be busy.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.