Mind Exercising Quotes

#1. My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.

Tracy Lane

#2. When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Michael Birch

#3. At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things. I try to get the right amount of sleep because I know that I need sleep to function and I need to eat properly and to do some exercising.

Melanie Chisholm

#4. I was interested in the kicks and the punches. I felt like I could utilize that in my real life, and not just in fake land. I've always done yoga for my breathing, and hiking for my mind, but I was also exercising, at the same time.

Zoey Deutch

#5. What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Ayn Rand

#6. When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel

T.F. Hodge

#7. Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

Pat McAfee

#8. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Pliny The Elder

#9. I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

Jaime Murray

#10. The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.

Emil Cioran

#11. On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry. It was ill will, the ill will of the universe, that distressed her.

Margaret Atwood

#12. The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

William Safire

#13. When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Questlove

#14. One day she told the class, 'Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.'

Truman Capote

#15. Katie Arnold-Ratliff. Katie writes like a dream. But she told me that she'd

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Richard Steele

#17. A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

William Morris

#18. I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!

Richard Goldschmidt

#19. I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

Regina Taylor

#20. Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

Gautama Buddha