Cognitive Agility Quotes

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

I have the natural ability to pick things up a lot faster than I think most people would.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

Newt Gingrich has incredible intellectual flexibility. He has been on both sides of almost every issue.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

To me, once you lose that step or two, you pick up a step or two with your head.

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.

Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.