Cognitive Disengagement Quotes

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

Make sense who may. I switch off.

She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama's more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could devise.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

A daydream is an evasion.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.