Cognitive Lag Quotes

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.