Mental Processing Quotes

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

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

We need to learn to process things in a different way. I always think of everything in terms of energy. To me, problems represent living in a world of low energy. When you bring higher energy to the presence of lower energy, it dissolves it, it dissipates it, it can't survive.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

Hush, self, let me think.

My brain? It's my second favorite organ!

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.