Dick Cavett Quotes

I want to have all of my faculties.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

All that I am, I am because of my mind.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

The mind is just another muscle.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

It's not easy to do morning TV. A lot of people think you just show up and be yourself, but one of the hardest things to do is be yourself when the camera comes on.

The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

Human power is to be reckoned less by physical vigor than by mental strength.

I'm always so nervous when I have to do interviews or be on 'The Tonight Show' or the 'Oprah' show, where I have to be myself. I don't know why that's such a big deal - being yourself. But for some reason, I feel good in a dark room talking to actors about acting, doing acting. I like sitting backstage watching people work.

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

It's definitely more nerve-wracking being in front of the cameras, although I'm trying to get better at it.

I'm mentally agile.