Cognitive Stimulation Quotes

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

A mind always employed is always happy.

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect, impure matter would be thrown off, and new life and vigor would be experienced in every part of the body.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

There's a degree to which music bypasses our rational brain and accesses our emotional core in a way that's really visceral and allows you to make a strong impression on people without necessary delivering information.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.