Brain Exercises Quotes

#1. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind. - Author: Dave Eggers

#2. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. - Author: Maxine Waters

#3. I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do. - Author: Romola Garai

#4. Mindfulness exercises produce literal changes in the brain's connections, significantly affecting how well a person interacts with other people and adapts to difficult situations. - Author: Daniel J. Siegel

#5. Those who appeared to be victims were always the easiest to victimize. - Author: Morgan Rhodes

#6. Some time later there was a song on all the jukeboxes on the Upper East Side that went "but where is the school-girl who used to be me," and if it was late enough at night I used to wonder that. - Author: Joan Didion

#7. Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive. - Author: Gerard Way

#8. This concept is central to understanding what distinguishes the Arrowsmith approach: cognitive exercises do not teach content or skill in, say, mathematics; the aim is to forge new neural pathways in the brain so that later, when math is taught, number concepts actually make sense. - Author: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

#9. There is a paradox in fiction that was first noticed by Aristotle in the Poetics. We are drawn to fiction because fiction gives us pleasure. But most of what is actually in fiction is deeply unpleasant: threat, death, despair, anxiety, Sturm und Drang. - Author: Jonathan Gottschall

#10. A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Literacy was power. - Author: Tom Standage

#12. I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next
Kim Cormack - Author: Kim Cormack

#13. By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them. - Author: Lisa Edelstein

#14. Deep breathing belly exercises strengthen the abdominal tissues responsible for lung expansion. Taking a few deep breaths periodically is like giving your brain a blast of unexpected oxygen. Your neurons - Author: Robert DeMaria

#15. I always want to be surprised and just see what's going to happen next. But definitely next is going to be busy, too. - Author: Charice Pempengco

#16. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will. - Author: Charles Baudelaire

#17. There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. - Author: Rene Descartes

#18. Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. - Author: Richard M. Nixon

#19. I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises. - Author: Maurice Sendak

#20. There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell. - Author: Eoin Colfer