Cognitive Interference Quotes

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.