Isaac Watts Quotes

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

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

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities.