Melvyn Bragg Quotes

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

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

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.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

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.

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

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

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

My memory's bad!

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.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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!

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.