I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.
Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...
Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.
You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.
Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.
All the resources we need are in the mind.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
People only have so much attention.
Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.
Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.
Thought, not money, is the real business capital.
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
