Tony Buzan Quotes

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

The brain is muscle. If you don't exercise it, it will get slow.

When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

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

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

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!

My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it.

My memory is not that good anymore.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

Use it or lose it.

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

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

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.

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

My memory's bad!

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

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

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

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.