Steve Carell Quotes

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.

It's fun to use your brain.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

To make headway, improve your head.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

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

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

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.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?