Jenova Chen Quotes

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

I like to make people think a little bit.

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

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.

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

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

I have a mind that always wants to be busy.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

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.