Daniel Naroditsky Quotes

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

I only think in live action.

When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.