Cognitive Challenge Quotes

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.

For all of us, it's very hard to think about money, and because of that, we need help. In the same way that for all of us, it is hard to eat well, and we need some help. The poor have a particular challenge, which is that their life is actually much more complex - and they're much more complex cognitively.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.