Alex Tabarrok Quotes

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

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

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his 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.

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

'The Wire' is, by far, my favorite television show of all time. And I've always said that my aspirations for 'Luke Cage' was that it would be 'The Wire' of the Marvel television universe.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

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.

A mind always employed is always happy.

the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.