Guy Martin Quotes

It's good to make your brain work more than your body.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental workout.

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

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

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

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

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.