Cognitive Benefits Quotes

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

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

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

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.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.

When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, 'My behavior matters,' which is optimism.

Exercise clears my brain of the stresses of poker's ups and downs, and allows me to re-focus my mind on the next day.

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

One of the happy consequences of my brain is that I rarely sleep.

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.