Quotes About Mind

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

I think you need to have a day or two when you treat yourself, because it brings happiness, it stimulates your mind.

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

In the morning, I know everyone has two things: an empty stomach and a fresh brain.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I don't believe in retiring. Your mind stops working then.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the journey of storytelling, I am an explorer.