A. N. Wilson Quotes

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

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.

My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

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.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.