Cognitive Exercise Quotes

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

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

I really love the category on the site called Brain Massage.

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

I don't always enjoy curating, but I do believe it's part of my job. It's a good exercise for my brain, like warming up. Just focusing on my work would be so depressing! For me, curating is necessary - it's like physical training.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

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

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

It's fun to use your brain.

I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.