Cognitive Rest Quotes

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

Traditionally, the treatment for a concussion has been to stare at a wall and wait for your brain to heal itself. Don't watch TV, don't read a book, don't look at your phone, and definitely don't train. It's a torturous protocol for an athlete.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Being tired isn't anything. What's important is the mind. The body being tired isn't important. You can get over the body being tired by resting for a half-hour or an hour. What's important is whether the mind is tired.

I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.

Healthy breaks can hit the reset button in your brain, restoring some of the glucose and other metabolic nutrients used up with deep thought. A healthy break is one in which you allow your brain to rest, to loosen its grip on your thoughts.

If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.

I'm just thinking all the time. There are times when I don't really need to think. You know what I mean? If you think about stuff for five hours, you really only need to do like five minutes and the rest of sort of rehashing it and dramatically going over it.