Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

The mind is just another muscle.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

The mind is a muscle.

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

We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!

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

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

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.

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.

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.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

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

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.