Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

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

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

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

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

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

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

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

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

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

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.

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 think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.

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

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. … the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.