Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming.... →
Tony Buzan
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with... →
I'm delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word 'brain,' no one was interested.... →
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
A. S. Byatt
I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and... →
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the... →
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes
I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing... →
Tom Hooper
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set... →
Anthony Hopkins
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.