Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

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.

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 love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.

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

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

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

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

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.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.

All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you're 100 having this conversation with someone.

My brain is fine.

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.